Life Skills Arcade Middle school Family and Consumer Sciences, grades 6 to 8

Life Skills Arcade

Middle school Family and Consumer Sciences, grades 6 to 8

This is a full year of Family and Consumer Sciences for grades 6, 7 and 8, taught every day in a 40-minute period. Students pass a kitchen safety exam and then cook. They build a budget, run a market simulation, sew by hand and repair what they own, design a room to scale, learn how people grow and how families work, trace their food back to the farm, and finish the year by pitching a product to a panel. Every unit ends in something a student made, scored on a rubric they saw before they started. Every lesson on this site names the exact standard lines it teaches.

Taught by Salvatore Prevosto

Read the syllabus See the year Standards map

The course at a glance

Grades
6 to 8
Length
Full year, 180 days
Period
40 minutes, daily
Units
8
Lessons
134
Content modules
All six NYS FACS
CTE theme modules
All six
NYS module lines
124

The eight units

Unit 0Launch: Welcome to the FACS RoomLaunch, themes only5 days · 5 lessonsProject Room and Lab Agreement, signed Unit 1Kitchen Skills and Smart EatingNutrition and Wellness30 days · 22 lessonsProject Feed a Family of Four on $40 Unit 2Me, My Goals, My MoneyIndividual Growth and Life Readiness30 days · 22 lessonsProject ClassroomStreet Investor Report and Personal Budget Unit 3Growing Up, Getting AlongHuman Development and Relationships25 days · 19 lessonsProject Babysitter's Activity Kit and Family Showcase Unit 4Spaces We Live InEnvironmental Design and Management25 days · 17 lessonsProject Design a Room (Design Your Own Bedroom for a client, or Tiny House) Unit 5Make It, Mend It, Wear ItApparel and Textile Production and Design28 days · 19 lessonsProject Upcycle Challenge Unit 6From Farm to TableFood Systems and Production24 days · 18 lessonsProject Feed the Class Unit 7Launch: Career Readiness and FACS Shark TankLaunch, themes only13 days · 12 lessonsProject FACS Shark Tank

How this site is organised

The syllabus is what goes home. The scope and sequence places every one of the 180 days. Each unit page holds the unit plan, its lessons, its project and rubric, its assessments and its vocabulary. Each lesson page is the whole lesson, ready to teach from. Materials holds 282 handouts and slide outlines. The standards map lists every NYS module line and links to the lessons that teach it. Every page prints, and every page links to the plain markdown behind it.