The module is designed to give students a comprehensive picture of housing and how to get dollar value when in the housing marketplace. Further, the module acquaints students with the work that Federal, State, and local government is doing in the housing field and how they and their families can benefit from government help. As a result of using…

This consumer's (or student's) guide for a home-study money management curriculum is divided into five units of study: (1) financial planning; (2) coping with credit; (3) protection through life insurance; (4) financial aspects of housing; and (5) making your money grow. Each unit contains fact sheets, charts, and quizzes. The fact sheets in unit…

This instructional unit on housing is one of six Adult Competency Education Learning Modules designed for use in a program of competency-based instruction for students with reading levels of 4.0-7.5. It is self-contained and designed for immediate classroom use. Each module is a complete instructional package, including Adult Performance Level…

As the appendix for a series of curriculum guides for consumer and homemaking education on the secondary level in Kentucky, this booklet contains instructional activities for classroom use in conjunction with the units in the comprehensive curriculum guides. Included are games, puzzles, skits, quizzes, survey forms, checklists, and review sheets…

This instructor's guide was designed to help teachers present a performance-based course in family management and economics to high school students. The guide contains a listing of the modules contained in the student modules with suggested levels and courses for teaching; additional learning experiences; lists of supplemental resources and…

This Resource Management Resource Guide is intended to help teachers implement Ohio's Work and Family Life Program. Course content focuses on the practical problems related to managing human and material resources, making consumer decisions, and feeding, clothing, and housing the family. These practical problems are posed through case studies and…

This document contains 73 performance-based modules for student use in high school home management and family economics courses. Each module is composed of an introduction for the student, a performance objective, a variety of learning activities, content information, a student self-check, recommended references, and an evaluator's final…

This guide suggests teaching topics, activities, and resources for rural home economics teachers in Alaska. It is divided into seven chapters. Six are devoted to each of the main teaching areas in consumer and homemaking education: personal/family relationships, foods/nutrition, housing/home management, consumer education/resource management,…

This home economics curriculum contains 16 modules for teaching personal, family, and applied skills in high schools in Alberta. The modules may be used in courses on various levels. Each module consists of generalizations, objectives, suggested learning experiences related to resources, and a content checklist. Modules in the personal living…

This document is a curriculum guide for teaching daily living skills to special education students enrolled in high school vocational education courses. The curriculum was prepared from a review of the research and a formal assessment questionnaire of what students, parents, and special education teachers and administrators in Prince George's…

This document, consisting of six modules, was designed to help home economics teachers integrate the teaching of reading, writing, and mathematics skills into homemaking and consumer economics courses. The modules were developed to help students meet the minimum standards for these skills in Florida secondary schools. Preceding the modules in the…

Designed as an aid for those teaching disadvantaged adults, this guide for consumer education for families with limited incomes consists of an overview for preparing teachers to teach consumer education to disadvantaged adults as well as English and Spanish instructional materials in 10 areas of consumer education. In the overview of teaching…