Its not your mother's Home Economics anymore!
Mrs. Austill teaches Home and Family for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. She joined Carmichael's staff in the middle of the 2000-2001 school year.
6th Grade (one quarter)
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Kitchen orientation
· Measuring, abbreviations & equivalents
· Basic kitchen tools & uses
· Jobs in the kitchen
· Food Guide Pyramid (intro)
· Basic cooking techniques in baking
· Kitchen safety
· Child care (babysitting)
a. Safety & first aid
b. Entertaining children
c. The job of babysitting
7th Grade (one quarter)
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Kitchen Orientation
· Food Guide Pyramid
· Menu planning and writing
· Handling food safely
· Egg cookery and breakfast foods.
· Consumerism
a. Wise Shopping
b. Label reading & analysis
8th Grade (one semester)
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Kitchen Orientation
· Food Guide Pyramid
· Healthy snacks
· Eating disorders
· Baking pies and cakes
· Food Service Careers
· Foreign Foods
· Meat & pasta cookery
· Child Development: prenatal - toddlers
· Fruit & vegetable cookery
· Laundry
· Money management
Mrs.
Austill
phone: 509.942.2468
fax: 509.942.2471
e-mail: jeannette.austill@rsd.edu
Some of the web sites we use in class: