New Hampshire State Standards/Competencies/Information
Family and Consumer Sciences Education prepares students for careers working with individuals and families as well as being productive members of their own family, community and workplace. This curriculum prepares individuals for life.
Family and Consumer Sciences Education/Life Skills at Rye Junior High is centered around the following areas as identified in the New Hampshire Guidelines:
Career, Community and Family Relations
Foods, Nutrition and Wellness
Textile/Sewing
Human Development
The middle school program (Foundations of Work and Family) provides the foundation for students to begin their journey towards becoming healthy, independent and productive.
CONTENT STANDARDS
CAREER, COMMUNITY AND FAMILY RELATIONS
13.1 Analyze functions and expectations of various types of relationships.
13.3 Demonstrate communication skills that contribute to positive relationships.
13.4 Evaluate effective conflict prevention and management techniques.
13.5 Demonstrate team work and leadership skills in the family, workplace and community.
6.2. Demonstrate respect for diversity with sensitivity to anti-bias, gender, equity, age, culture, and ethnicity.
1.0 Integrate multiple life roles and responsibilities in family, work, and community.
1.2.4 Demonstrate teamwork skills in community and workplace settings.
7.1 Analyze career paths within family and community services.
FOODS, NUTRITION AND WELLNESS
14.1 Analyze factors that influence nutrition and wellness practices across the life span.
14.3 Demonstrate ability to acquire, handle, and use foods to meet nutrition and wellness needs of individuals and families across the life span.
14.4 Evaluate factors that affect food safety, from production through consumption.
8.1 Analyze career paths within the food production and food services industries.
TEXTILES (SEWING)
16.2 Evaluate fiber and textiles materials
16.4 Demonstrate skills needed to produce, alter, or repair textiles products and apparel.
Following Directions
Operation a sewing machine
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
12.1Analyze principles of human growth and development across the life
-Describe the physical, social, cognitive and emotional changes of adolescence.
-Identify accurate and credible sources of information about sexual health.
-Describe male and female sexual and reproductive systems including body parts and their functions
-Communicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions and sexual orientations.
-Explain the criteria for evaluating the health of a relationship.
-Demonstrate effective skills to negotiate agreements about the use of technology in relationships.
-Analyze the similarities and differences between friendships and romantic relationships
-Describe the advantages and disadvantages of communicating using technology and social media.
-Apply a decision- making model to various sexual health decisions.
-Analyze the impact of alcohol and other drugs on safer sexual decision- making and sexual behaviors.
-Discuss the impacts of bullying, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, incest, rape and dating violence and why they are
wrong.
-Define STDs, including HIV, and how they are and are not transmitted.
-Compare and contrast behaviors, including abstinence, to determine the potential
risk of STD/HIV.
-Explain the health benefits, risks and effectiveness rates of various methods of contraception, including abstinence.
COORDINATED SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAM— EIGHT COMPONENT MODEL
-Health education— the instructional component
-Parent and community involvement
-Health promotion for staff
-Healthy school environment
-Physical education
-Health services
Nutrition services
Counseling, psychological and social services
Health education builds students' knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes about health. Health education teaches about physical, mental, emotional and social health. It motivates students to improve and maintain their health, prevent disease, and reduce risky behaviors.
Health education curricula and instruction help students learn skills they will use to make healthy choices throughout their lifetime. Effective curricula result in positive changes in behavior that lower student risks around:
alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs,
injury prevention,
mental and emotional health,
nutrition,
physical activity,
prevention of diseases and
sexuality and family life.
Family and Consumer Sciences Education prepares students for careers working with individuals and families as well as being productive members of their own family, community and workplace. This curriculum prepares individuals for life.
Family and Consumer Sciences Education/Life Skills at Rye Junior High is centered around the following areas as identified in the New Hampshire Guidelines:
Career, Community and Family Relations
Foods, Nutrition and Wellness
Textile/Sewing
Human Development
The middle school program (Foundations of Work and Family) provides the foundation for students to begin their journey towards becoming healthy, independent and productive.
CONTENT STANDARDS
CAREER, COMMUNITY AND FAMILY RELATIONS
13.1 Analyze functions and expectations of various types of relationships.
13.3 Demonstrate communication skills that contribute to positive relationships.
13.4 Evaluate effective conflict prevention and management techniques.
13.5 Demonstrate team work and leadership skills in the family, workplace and community.
6.2. Demonstrate respect for diversity with sensitivity to anti-bias, gender, equity, age, culture, and ethnicity.
1.0 Integrate multiple life roles and responsibilities in family, work, and community.
1.2.4 Demonstrate teamwork skills in community and workplace settings.
7.1 Analyze career paths within family and community services.
FOODS, NUTRITION AND WELLNESS
14.1 Analyze factors that influence nutrition and wellness practices across the life span.
14.3 Demonstrate ability to acquire, handle, and use foods to meet nutrition and wellness needs of individuals and families across the life span.
14.4 Evaluate factors that affect food safety, from production through consumption.
8.1 Analyze career paths within the food production and food services industries.
TEXTILES (SEWING)
16.2 Evaluate fiber and textiles materials
16.4 Demonstrate skills needed to produce, alter, or repair textiles products and apparel.
Following Directions
Operation a sewing machine
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
12.1Analyze principles of human growth and development across the life
-Describe the physical, social, cognitive and emotional changes of adolescence.
-Identify accurate and credible sources of information about sexual health.
-Describe male and female sexual and reproductive systems including body parts and their functions
-Communicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions and sexual orientations.
-Explain the criteria for evaluating the health of a relationship.
-Demonstrate effective skills to negotiate agreements about the use of technology in relationships.
-Analyze the similarities and differences between friendships and romantic relationships
-Describe the advantages and disadvantages of communicating using technology and social media.
-Apply a decision- making model to various sexual health decisions.
-Analyze the impact of alcohol and other drugs on safer sexual decision- making and sexual behaviors.
-Discuss the impacts of bullying, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, incest, rape and dating violence and why they are
wrong.
-Define STDs, including HIV, and how they are and are not transmitted.
-Compare and contrast behaviors, including abstinence, to determine the potential
risk of STD/HIV.
-Explain the health benefits, risks and effectiveness rates of various methods of contraception, including abstinence.
COORDINATED SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAM— EIGHT COMPONENT MODEL
-Health education— the instructional component
-Parent and community involvement
-Health promotion for staff
-Healthy school environment
-Physical education
-Health services
Nutrition services
Counseling, psychological and social services
Health education builds students' knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes about health. Health education teaches about physical, mental, emotional and social health. It motivates students to improve and maintain their health, prevent disease, and reduce risky behaviors.
Health education curricula and instruction help students learn skills they will use to make healthy choices throughout their lifetime. Effective curricula result in positive changes in behavior that lower student risks around:
alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs,
injury prevention,
mental and emotional health,
nutrition,
physical activity,
prevention of diseases and
sexuality and family life.