Course Offerings and Big Ideas in FCS
Family & Consumer Sciences Content at Profile School include:
Knowledge is power and the decisions you make have consequences for better or worse. Learn from your mistakes.
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge"
Bertrand Russell
- Career Exploration
- Healthy Cooking and Basic Nutrition
- Personal Finance
- Child Development and Human Relationships
- Psychology (part of the social studies department).
Knowledge is power and the decisions you make have consequences for better or worse. Learn from your mistakes.
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge"
Bertrand Russell
Big Ideas in Family & Consumer Sciences
Overarching concepts in Family & Consumer Sciences
Decisions / Wealth / Happiness/ Character/ Strength/ Independence/Stability/Freedom / Personal Growth/ Responsibility
Big Ideas in Psychology
Know Yourself and Understand Others
Big Ideas in Culinary Arts & Nutrition:
Personal wellness is driven by food choices.
Healthy eating promotes wellness
Cooking for yourself puts you in control of your health
Big Ideas in Career Exploration:
Work gives meaning to one's life
Love what you do
Big Idea in Life:
Freedom is dependent upon choices and actions
Knowledge is Power
Big Idea in Middle School Life:
Tools & strategies help us manage our life
Family is the foundation of our society
Big Ideas in Middle School Foods
Healthy Foods = A Healthy You
The ability to cook for yourself allows you to control what you eat
Understanding what you eat allows you to make educated choices
Decisions / Wealth / Happiness/ Character/ Strength/ Independence/Stability/Freedom / Personal Growth/ Responsibility
- Knowledge is power
- Decisions have consequences
- Strength of character is empowering
- Tools and strategy help us manage our life
- Freedom is dependent upon choices and actions
- Responsibility builds character
- Healthy Food = A Healthy YOU
- Family is the foundation of society
- Job Satisfaction, Relationships with Others, Food Choices, Stress management and Physical Activity significantly impact personal well being.
- Families are the fundamental unit of society and strong families empower individuals to manage the challenges of living and working in a diverse, global society.
- Children grow and learn in understandable observable patterns that can be recognized and optimized through consistent and stable family and community environments.
- Responsible consumers use effective resource management to accomplish individual, family and community goals.
- Nutrition, eating habits and preparation choices impact overall health and wellness throughout the lifecycle at individual and societal level.
Big Ideas in Psychology
Know Yourself and Understand Others
Big Ideas in Culinary Arts & Nutrition:
Personal wellness is driven by food choices.
Healthy eating promotes wellness
Cooking for yourself puts you in control of your health
Big Ideas in Career Exploration:
Work gives meaning to one's life
Love what you do
Big Idea in Life:
Freedom is dependent upon choices and actions
Knowledge is Power
Big Idea in Middle School Life:
Tools & strategies help us manage our life
Family is the foundation of our society
Big Ideas in Middle School Foods
Healthy Foods = A Healthy You
The ability to cook for yourself allows you to control what you eat
Understanding what you eat allows you to make educated choices