Basics of FCS
Now named Family & Consumer Sciences
What is Home Economics?
Location of the first conferences for what is today FCS.
What is Lake Placid, New York.
Wholistic, Integrative, & Synergistic
What are three terms often used to describe the FCS Philosophy?
Basic human needs, individual well-being, family strengths, and community vitality.
What are the Core Concepts of the Body of Knowledge
How well basic human needs are met and focuses on providing an environment conducive to individual and family well-being
What is Community Vitality?
Chemist credited with founding Home Economics
Who is Ellen Swallow Richards?
Location of the 2024 AAFCS National Conference.
Where is Minneapolis, Minnesota?
A coalition of organizations representing academia, industry, professional associations, and honor societies leading family and consumer sciences efforts around the globe.
What is the Alliance for Family and Consumer Sciences?
Capacity building, global interdependence, resource development and sustainability, appropriate use of technology, and wellness.
What are the Cross-Cutting themes of the Body of Knowledge?
People develop biologically and socially across their lives in ways that influence and change their interactions with each other and with social institutions.
What is Life Course Development?
Middle and High School Student Organization with a FCS teacher as the advisor
What is FCCLA or Family, Career and Community Leaders of America
CAFCS (Council of Administrators of Family and Consumer Sciences).
What is the organization for FCS professionals in administrative roles?
Family and Consumer Sciences is focused on understanding issues and ______ of problems rather than treatment after they occur.
What is prevention?
Physiological needs, safety, love and belongingness, self-esteem, and self-actualization are central to concepts developed, applied, and assessed in the family and consumer sciences body of knowledge.
What are Basic Human Needs?
This model provides a comprehensive, or holistic, understanding of relationships among individuals, families, and communities and their physical, human-built, and social/behavioral environment.
What is the Theory of Human Ecosystems?
Might typically teach courses in nutrition and foods, consumer education, lifespan human development, and parenting.
Who is a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher?
Alexandria, Virginia
Where is the home for AAFCS?
Involves understanding how advances in science and technology are shaped, manipulated, and used to affect the quality of life for individuals, families, and communities.
What is Appropriate use of Technology?
Self-aware, motivated, and empowered individuals adapt, modify, manage, and interact with their social, cultural, technological, and natural environments to enable themselves and others to make meaningful contributions throughout their life spans.
What is Individual Well-Being
Individuals, families, and communities acquiring knowledge, and skills, building on assets and strengths, respecting diversity, and responding effectively to change
What is Capacity Building?
Two federal acts: the ________ Act (1914), intended to spread knowledge of home economics and agriculture to rural populations through the establishment of cooperative extension services; and the _________ Act (1917), which aimed to promote vocational education in agriculture and home economics.
What are the Smith-Lever Act and the Smith-Hughes Act?
Involves managing resources wisely, protecting the environment, promoting sustainable practices, and creating public policy from generation to generation.
What is Resource Development and Sustainability?
It includes food security; adequate nutrition; reduced risk of chronic and communicable disease; access to forms of exercise; respectful, caring, and compassionate learning environments; healthcare availability, access, costs, and quality; psychological health; protection from abuse, exploitation, and violence; access to safe water and air and adequate sanitation facilities; control of healthcare costs so quality care is available; and spirituality.
What is Wellness?
Resilient characteristics of families regardless of family structure, interactions with each other and with others outside the family unit, and applications of strategies to cope with the events of everyday life.
What are Family Strengths?
The impact of people—individually and collectively—on the world, and the effect of their actions on others.
What is Global Interdependence?