This course is an in-depth look in to the study of foods and nutrition. Learn how to prepare meals, based on a quick cuisine method, in planning for the future of family needs. This course# includes food preparation, kitchen saftey, equipment, nutrition, menu planning, leadership and development, consumer information and careers in food related industries. Students are actively involved in individual and group projects. This class is open to all 10th, 11th and 12th graders, and is worth .5 credits per semister.
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Prerequisite: Complete Chef School 1 with a C or better. This class is open to all 10th, 11th and 12th graders, and is worth .5 credits per semister. Students will make many different types of dishes that can be prepared, as well as catering meals, advanced menu planning for large groups, food garnishing, foreign foods,# and cultural foods of the United States. Students will continue to explore related careers and will have an opportunity to experence a culinary arts school. A variety of student assesments will be emphiszed. Some include projects, hands-on demonstrations and cooking video production.
This class is open to all sophomores, juniors and seniors, and is worth .5 credits per semister. This class is designed to help you better understand children and the way they think. The course is an in-depth study of child development and parenting, which includes units in family planning, reproduction, heredity and environment, pre and post care birth, infant feeding, and food for yourn chil#dren, the social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development stages of children, leadership development, guidance techniques, services available to children and parents, and careers in the child developmental area. Students are actively involved in the individual and group projects and occasionally work with small children. With completion of additional course work and a grade of a B or better, students may earn 2 college credits for this class after the sucessful completion of 1 quarter at Edmonds Community College.
A fast paced overview of Family and Consumer Sciences. Fufills .5 Professional Technical or elective credit. Open to 10th, 11th and 12th graders. Topics include foods, relationships, child development, sewing, money management, and interior design. Students who find an intrest in an area may choose to further their studies by taking more specific classes addressing that topic of study. A variety of assessments will be utilized in this course. Some examples include projects, group and individual lab work as well as learning workshops.
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This class is designed to introduce students to the teaching profession as well as prepare them for to be better parents and community leadersin the future and emphized professional skills valuable to any career.
This course is based on the school-to-work transition model. A major portion of the class time will be spent off the high school campus as an internship site (typically our local elementary schools) where students will get hands on experence teaching a class. Students learn and work under teh guidance of a mentor teacher at the intern site. They also attend regularly scheduled class meetings at the hich school. Topics include development and needs of school age children, learning theories, use of technology in the classroom and teaching strategies.
Learning will be demonstrated by on-the-job evaluations conducted by the high school facilitators and elementary #mentors. On campus progress will be evaluated through class participation, projects presentations, and daily journal entries based on on their work site internships. Agreements with CWU and WSU may allow students who sucessfully complete this course to waive a portion of their introductory college teacher certification. This class is a year long class (1 credit) and is open to all juniors and seniors.
This .5 credit course is an in-depth study of housing and interior design. The course includes units in elements in design, landscaping, housing styles, lighting, spaceplanning, and room decorating. Students are actively involved in project based learning on an individual and group basis. This course also does one week of community service applying knowlege gained over the semister to benifit others. This class is open to 10th, 11th, and 12th graders.
This class is for 10th, 11th, and 12th graders, and fufills .5 credits of Professional/Techincal, or art. Before completing individual sewing projects, the student will demonstrate their understanding of the principles and elements of design through their own creation of personal logos and their development of fashon boards. The students may also research icons of modern history and how they have impacted fashon as well as their own fashon illistrations. This class is project based.
This is a required freshman class, which lasts a semister and is worth .5 credits. 9th grade health is a skills based health program. It is designed to give students decision making skills that promote healthy lifestyles. Topics covered are: diet and nutrition, community health and safty, communication, self-esteem, fitness and health, substance abuse, stress management, sexuality, relationships, abstinence, STD's, HIV, and body systems.