Founders and Key People
Known as the "founder of home economics."
Who is Ellen Swallow Richards?
This is the core mission of the Body of Knowledge.
What is To enhance the well-being of individuals, families, and communities?
The 1917 Act that first funded vocational ed.
What is The Smith-Hughes Act?
The name of the AAFCS logo.
What is The Betty Lamp?
Known as the "father of vocational education."
What is Charles Prosser?
The school Ellen Richards first attended and then taught at.
What is MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)?(she was the first woman admitted and the first female instructor)
One reason the BOK is important to the profession.
What is it provides a common language and connects different specializations?
This Act has been reauthorized often to improve CTE.
What is The Carl D. Perkins Act?
What the student organization FCCLA stands for.
What is Family, Career and Community Leaders of America?
He believed education should be integrated, not split.
Who is John Dewey?
He argued for "social efficiency" in vocational training.
Who is David Snedden?
What is the BOK?
What is described as a framework or "map" that defines what FCS professionals do?
The year Home Economics was officially established.
What is 1899 (at the first Lake Placid Conference)?
What the "Betty Lamp" logo represents.
What is The joy of knowledge and the light of the home?
These are the five discipline areas of CTE.
What is Agriculture, Business, Family & Consumer Sciences, Health Science, and Technology?
Ellen Richards' three specific research interests.
What is Water, air, and food?
This group is the "target" of the BOK mission.
What is Individuals, families, and communities?
The year (and why) the name changed to FCS.
What is 1994; changed to modernize the image and reflect that the field is broader than just "cooking and sewing?
The difference between AAFCS and IFACSTA.
What is AAFCS is the national professional org; IFACSTA is the Illinois-specific teacher-focused affiliate?
The significance of the Rumford and New England Kitchens.
What is they were experiments in providing nutritious, low-cost food to the poor and documenting scientific cooking methods?
Why the Lake Placid Conferences were important.
What is defined the standards for the profession and officially gave it a name?
What IFACSTA stands for.
What is Illinois Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers Association?
Two reasons vocational education came about.
What is The Industrial Revolution (need for skilled labor) and the shift away from purely academic "classical" schooling?