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FACS Resource Materials

Resources

Captioned Media
Videos from the National Association of the Deaf

CareerTech Connect Resource Center
A cyberspace resource center that provides tools and practices for achieving excellence in the classroom.

Career Activity File, Career Portfolios K-12  
Ideas and activities within the file can be used to enhance your classroom or guidance curriculum throughout the school year.  This year's theme is "Career Portfolios K-12."

FACS Commodities Letter (USDA Foods)

Internet Addresses for Classroom Instruction

OSU Cooperative Extension FACS Resources

TrackStar Lessons
Online lessons in careertech as well as core academic subject areas for early childhood through grade 12.

PASS Skills

To find the fifteen comprehensive school FACS curriculums crosswalked with PASS, National FACS Standards and Personal Financial Literacy Standards, please go to the ICAT website and click on the "FACS Standards"

Course Information

Obsolete Scope and Sequence - Revised 2008
A concise overview of the FACS program including course descriptions.  Does not include courses we have added since career clusters.

Revised National Standards for Family and Consumer Sciences Education are available now.  The URL is www.aafcs.org/FCSstandards  As you look over the website, please feel free to share any questions, suggestions, or other comments. You can send to me at pwild@doe.in.gov or to NASAFACS President Eleanor Glover at eglover@ed.sc.gov

Course Timelines  -  Find the course timelines on the ICAT website at  http://icat.okcareertech.org/facs  under "FACS Courses/Resources".

Healthy Life Choices (Grades 9 &10) (outline)

Hospitality Careers Orientation (Grades 10-12) (outline)

Early Care and Education Competencies Letter

Program Criteria
The criteria for a FACS program are listed with a brief definition.

FACS Areas of Concentration
If you need to show where an area of family and consumer sciences is taught within a course and/or throughout the curriculum, click on this link.

FACS Cooperative Education Information
Family and Consumer Sciences Cooperative Education provides an instructional program of two or three units of credit designed to develop employability skills and personal traits and to give an orientation to employment in FACS related occupations and careers.

Memorandum of Training
Memorandum of Training form.

Safety Test

Revised Safety Tests  -  Find new versions of the safety tests on the ICAT website at  http://icat.okcareertech.org/facs  under "FACS Courses/Resources".  Tests and answer keys are available to print as Word documents.

Program Evaluation

FACS Program Standards Report (pdf)

FACS Evaluation Book for Comprehensive HS Programs (pdf)

FACS Evaluation Book for Occupational Specific Programs (word)

FACS Evaluation Book for Occupational Specific Programs (pdf)

Testing

Accountability for Teaching/Learning  Information about FACS duty/task lists and competency test for high school programs.

Legislative

Senate and House Representative Information

FACS Webteam
Revised: October 20, 2009
E-mail message can be sent to by clicking on "FACS Webteam" above.