Lesson and Project Ideas for the FACS Classroom

Pinterest is a great site to get lesson ideas and project ideas. This link was sent to us by Cindy Coan the FACS teacher at Russellville High School.  You may need to ask the IT people in your system to open this site for you.  Thank you for sharing your ideas with us.

Are We Listening to What Our Students Have to Say About Education

What students want us to know about education is that we need to make sure that they are aware of Career and Technical Education and what they can gain by taking our subject matter.  View the video on the link to hear what they have to say.  The link also provides a list twenty items that students would like the nation to know about education.  This link was sent to us by Cindy Coan a FACS teacher at Russellville High School.  Thank you for sharing your ideas.

Housing, Interior Design, Landscaping, Wedding Planning, and Fashion Design Resources

The sampleboard link has a free 30 day trial and a free version after that.  It is a website that allows you to create designs in the areas of fashion, interiors, weddings, and landscaping. This resource idea was sent to us by Cindy Coan the FACS teacher at Russellville High School.  Thank you Cindy for sharing this resource idea with the other FACS teachers in the State of Alabama.

Qestioning Techiques

Closed or Open: That is the Question is a link that shows a lesson on economic systems and the questioning techniques used are critiqued in order to improve the teachers questioning abilities.  This resource will be great for any FACS teacher who would like to improve or refresh their questioning techniques and student engagement with classroom discussion.  It would also be a great resource for teachers who teach in the Education and Training Cluster to train their students about questioning techniques in the classroom.

Child Care

The Child Care Provider Check List is included in an article on the Web site link.  The article deals with find a suitable childcare provider for children of special needs.

Making It Click Assessment with Technology

Using Clickers is a new technology that all FACS teachers could use in their classroom.  It will allow you to know if your students are grasping the technical concepts, before the student begins using them in a laboratory or taking a test on the concepts you would like for them to know.  It could also be used to prepare your students for credentialing.

Fashion Games

Fashion Games is a Web site where you will find game students may use to do makeovers, hair styles, go shopping, manicures, and many many other fun things in the fashion industry.  However you may need to get your IT person in your school system to open up the sites you would like for the students to use.

My Foods, My Fitness, and My Health

Choose MyPlate SuperTracker allows you to create your own profile and develop your own personal goals for maintaining your weight, diet, and fitness.  You will be able to keep up with how many calories you are taking in each day and how many you are burning.

This site was supplied by Leigh Hall from Nichols Lawson Middle School.  Thank you, Leigh.

Classroom Management Strategies

Caring-and-Control Create-a-Safe-Positive-Classroom discusses classroom management techniques to help improve the classroom atmosphere.  It also provides a few discussion questions.

Strategies for Improving Transitions and Time Management.

Strategies-to-Improve-Transitions-and-Time-Management is a link to a video that could be used with students who are in the Education and Training Cluster.  It will help students to learn more about how to make better time management decisions and transitions within a lesson.

Classroom Management During Centers

Classroom Management During Centers is a video that shows how to manage a classroom using centers.  It can be used with students who are taking Education and Trainging Classes to prepare them for the classroom experience.  It also supplies a list of questions to consider.

Time Management for Classroom Instruction

Time on Task: Seconds Count is a video on the importance of using every minute in the classroom for instruction.  It would be a good to use with the Education and Training Classroom.  It explains how much time is lost over time when you waste 5 minutes a day.

Using Children's Books to Practice Literacy Skills

Using Children's Books to Practice Literacy Skills is a short video about teaching students how to read critically to analyze the text, dig deeper into the text, and to gain confidence when learning a skill.  It is designed for high school students grades 9-12, but Education and Trainging teachers could use it with their classes to help their students to develop a better understanding on how to teach literacy to others.

Developing Communication Skills in the Classroom

Talk Moves: Developing Communication Skills is a short video that demonstrates ways to get students to begin communicating with one another about the lesson.

Survival Planning Guide for New Teachers

New Teacher Survival Guide:Planning is a video on planning English/Language lessons for grades 9-12.   This is a great way for students in the Teaching and Training Pathway to gain a better understanding on what will be necessary in planning a lesson.

Fifty Sneakers

This site http://www.fiftysneakers.com/  is one for all FACS teachers.  It allows you to create, store, and deliver worksheets, exam, and quizzes as printable documents or online tests.  It has a free use plan, but the better plans have a price range from $5.99 - $14.99 per month.

Educational Word Games

Education and Training Cluster Teachers, this is another site that you may allow your students to use as a resource when planning lessons.  Kids Games is a free online word games site for kids to play free word games.  The following is a link to the site.  wordfreegames.com

Use Quizinator as a Resource

What is Quizinator?
Quizinator Explained in 100 words or less...
Worksheets, study sheets, exams, and quizzes are basically collections of questions and answers, arranged in some particular order, and grouped by one or more categories.
Quizinator acts as a online resource library that organizes and manages these collections of questions, allowing you to group and categorize them in whatever way suits your needs.
When you want to create a new exam for example, select from your question library what you want, arrange the questions with drag and drop, and save.
Everything is conveniently centralized online. You can manage and print your documents and library components anytime, from any browser. 

The following is the link for the Quizinator Web site.  http://www.quizinator.com/

Brain POP

The following Web site is a good resource for teachers in the Education and Training Cluster.  http://www.brainpop.com/ 
It contains free educational materials.  Students in your class will enjoy using it on a regular bases to prepare lessons. 

How to Make Cupcakes

Web site for teachers who teach Culinary Arts and Foods Classes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRLMjj7jImI&feature=player_detailpage
This link will provide a recipe and a demonstration on how to make cupcakes.

Fashion Resources

If you teach Fashions please visit the following link to see if you find it help with the instructing of your classes.  http://www.myfashionsketches.com/making_fashion_croquis.php
The link will take you to a fashion Web site that will help you with fashion terms, careers, learning how to make fashion croquis and etc.

Creating 2D Elevations

Interior Design and Houing Teachers may find these Web sites helpful.

These Web addresses explain how to make 2d elevations with Sketchup.

http://www.ehow.com/how_8537563_make-2d-elevation-drawing-sketchup.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_6375278_tutorial-terrain-google-sketchup.html

http://sketchup.google.com/product/features.html

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=900a72bb4ccd56b27d70172a29ade99a

This one is a short video about developing elevations with Google earth.

http://www.sketchupfans.com/sketchup-help/elevations-in-sketchup/

Free Housing Software Design Program Links

The following links will take you to Free Housing Software Design Programs

http://www.housedesignsoftwareinc.com/

http://www.smartdraw.com/specials/house-design-software.htm

http://www.homestyler.com/

http://houseplanz.com/

http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/31/windows/5-free-home-design-software.html

http://www.techmixer.com/free-home-design-software-download/

http://www.brothersoft.com/google-sketchup-61165.html

Italian Meringue Buttercream Icing Recipe

These two links take you to an Italian Meringue Buttercream Icing Recipe.  It would make a good project for those who teach Culinary Arts and for those who teach Foods.

This one is for Perfect cupcake icing: How to make Italian Meringue Buttercream (Part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kdu7xn3x4Q

This one is for Perfect cupcake icing: How to pipe Italian Meringue Buttercream (Part 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbnfgOJ9VXc&feature=watch_response_rev

Free Story Board Web Site

This is http://karenjlloyd.com/blog/free-storyboard-template-downloads/ a free Story Board Web site.  The Education and Training Cluster could use this as a resource for their students to use in preparing lessons for the classes they are teaching.

AACTE Summer Conference Announcement

AACTE Summer Conference registration deadline is April 1, 2012.  Registration fees are $100.00 for AACTE members , $300.00 for non-members, $50.00 for stundents, and $300.00 for Spouse/Guest.  Be sure to get your registration in on time.  On April 2, 2012, resgistration fees will increase to $200.00 for AACTE members, $400.00 for non-members, $100.00 for students, and $400.00 for Spouse/Guest.  Onsite registration for all persons (AACTE Members, non-members, or guest) registering after May 1 will pay $500.00 with no exceptions.

To register send check or money order payable to Alabama ACTE-CTE Conference.  Purchase Orders and Credit Cards will not be accepted. Registation fees are non-refundable.

Note: Checks and money order payments not made payable to Alabama ACTE-CTE conference will be returned to sender.  The conference registration fee for any returned checks/money orders after the registration deadline will be $500.00. No Exceptions.

Mail your registration form and check/money order made payable to Alabama ACTE-CTE Conference to P.O. Box 988, Montgomery, AL 36101-0988

For more information about the AACTE Summer Conference and a copy of the registration form please follow this link http://www.alacte.org/.

Classroom Resources

This Web site link https://icat.okcareertech.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/OKCT.woa/wa/room?id=N1BIs takes you to the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technical Education FACS Section. It contains great resources for all FACS Clusters.  Using the left hand column, click on the subject you would like to view.  It will take you to those courses.  Scroll down the page until you see the word resources.  Under the word resources, there will be various types of resources.  Click on the resource that interest you and download the document to your computer.  Some are PowerPoint presentations that would be great additions to your classroom instruction.