Things You'll Need:
- computer with broadband access
- kitchen
- sewing machine
- recipe book
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Step 1
Family Economics of course is about budgeting the family finances including making sure bills are paid, balancing a check book, emergency funds development with hopes of having something left-over for vacationing. While most families may gloss over learning this home economics activity, the lack of knowledge can prove devastating for a new college freshman and then develop a rocky road for starting a new family. The tools available in computer based homeschooling are combined in one environment for learning family economics while using a computer that is fast becoming the tool for all economic applications in everyday life.
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Step 2
Nutrition may well be the favorite skill to learn in home economics activities as it involves choosing foods that are good for a family’s health. With most Americans fighting the ‘battle of the bulge’ even to the point that it is affecting our youth it becomes evident that we have not been taught well or were not paying attention in class. Video resources about nutrition are the best tools for establishing a sound set of nutritional values that can be applied to keeping a family healthy for the rest of their long lives.
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Step 3
Cooking is a portion of home economics activities to develop skills in preparing nutritional meals, learning the various ways to cook meals, the tools needed for cooking or food storage. The knowledge learned from cooking can lead to several careers that may or may not involve actually being in a kitchen and rely heavily on using a computer to get the job done. Learning recipes, kitchen utensils, measuring, menu selection along with many other resources are the ‘bread and butter’ computer homeschooling students get to explore through an imaginative cooking program.
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Step 4
Consumer Science is a program that is a part of home economics activities focusing on the well-being of individuals and households by highlighting consumer protection values due to the changing environment that tends to take advantage of people unaware of potential problems in products, pricing or purchasing. This view developed from just learning ‘how to shop’ to consumer science as the marketplace became more of a landscape filled with quicksand to trap or take advantage of consumers. Teaching a computer based homeschooling class that relates to home economics takes keeping up with news about consumer protection on any media available for discussion and to keep it as a foundation for making the right decisions.
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Step 5
Interior Design focuses students in computer homeschooling on making their house a home instead of an eye-opening experience. This program includes what items to choose, budget decisions, interior function or feng shui with the use of a computer to gain access to everything needed before your class leaves your home. Ever went into your teenager’s room and wondered why it was a mess? Maybe interior design can save your children’s present and future.
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Step 6
Parenting involves the well-being of families to include developing good mothers and good fathers from the home they grew up in for preparation of the home they will one day establish themselves. It takes confidence in our own parenting skills to teach someone else and confidence to research areas where a question arises that we don’t have the answer. Basic values should be emphasized in parenting programs for they are the guide to a better home or community.
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Step 7
Apparel Design develops computer based homeschooling students skills for sewing, fashion choices, or what not to wear. A program that gives parents a way to guide their children in what to wear is like a god-send; remember not to take advantage of the time invested for them to learn overall home economics activities. The best fine point of apparel design is the career that can be made from the knowledge learned along with acceptance as a refined person on making the right choice when going through our communities.
