FACS Resources/Curriculum

Parenting: It’s Your Decision! Book

By Carolyn Behrens. Grades 8-12. Use as a hands-on learning curriculum in parenting units or classes, to help students develop an awareness of the life changes that happen when children are added to a family. Students will experience the ... More.

Nasco’s Activities for Child Care Classes: Toys Activity Book

By Carol Schmelzel. Grade 6 and up. This book includes lessons (in puzzle and quiz form) on topics such as why toys are important, toy selection, and toy safety; and idea sheets with suggestions for instant toys from household items. Provides pat... More.

Child Development: The First Six Years

By Susan Puffer. Grade 9 and up. Hard-to-find supplemental activities on a topic of increasing importance. These reproducible worksheets reinforce major concepts and vocabulary to help students better understand how children develop throu... More.

Practical Parenting Student Book

Grade 7 and up. Includes five sections dealing with physical care and health, nutrition, guidance/discipline, teaching your child, and day care. Emphasis throughout is on developing positive, affirming parenting skills. Each section is followed b... More.

Practical Parenting Teacher’s Guide

Grade 7 and up. Includes five sections dealing with physical care and health, nutrition, guidance/discipline, teaching your child, and day care. Emphasis throughout is on developing positive, affirming parenting skills. Each section is followed b... More.

Working with Groups on Family Issues

By Sandy Stewart Christian, MSW, LICSW. Twenty-five structured exercises, each 30-60 minutes long, for exploring: divorce, balancing work and family, family problems, solo parenting, boundaries, intimacy, and step-families. Participan... More.

Working with Groups on Family Issues Reproducible Worksheet Masters

A great supplement to Working with Groups on Family Issues (WA18454H). Camera-ready masters include graphics, producing a professional handout that allows room for participants to record notes. Worksheets can be printed off CD. 24 pages. More.

Nasco’s Emphasis on Family… Activities Connecting Home-School-Community

By Colleen J. Angel. This book provides you with classroom activities across the Family and Consumer Sciences curriculum. Encourages and models the use of positive family dynamics with activities that show you how to make your classroom function ... More.

50 Web-based Lesson Plans for Parenting & Child Development

Grade 6 and up. Updated! Contains 50 internet lesson ideas along with a creative homework assignment or activity for each lesson and a summary. Topics include child development basics, theories and theorists, growth and development, pregnancy, ch... More.

Life Skills Resource Book – Parenting and Child Development

By Sunny Side Up! Grades 6 and up. Games and activities bring fun into the classroom! These innovative and unique curriculum resources are guaranteed to raise the attention and interest of today’s highly-visual student learners! Designe... More.