Preparing for Life and Career

Give students the tools they need to develop skills they can use throughout their lives and careers.

Content is organized into 27 chapters presented as short, easy-to-read sections. New photos and charts stimulate interest in learning more. Each chapter contains several new features that reinforce life skills, academic skills, and green living. Interesting questions are posed throughout the text to encourage critical thinking and problem solving.

Preparing for Life and Career includes the following 8 units:

• Unit 1, Your Development and Relationships, shows students how to build self concepts and become independent adults. Students also learn how to deal with family challenges and peer pressure.
• Unit 2, Managing Your Life, introduces management and planning processes as well as decision-making skills. Students learn how to manage their resources time, energy, money, technology to achieve their goals. A new section addresses environmental responsibility.
• Unit 3, Managing Your Career, provides content that helps students research careers and apply for jobs. They learn about the employability skills needed to be successful on the job.
• Unit 4, Understanding Children and Parenting, helps students learn how to care for children and become responsible babysitters.
• Unit 5, Your Health and Nutrition, focuses on staying fit and making healthful choices.
• Unit 6, Preparing Meals and Dining Out, shows students how to plan and prepare nutritious meals based on My Plate.
• Unit 7, The Clothes You Wear, addresses proper clothing care. Students develop basic sewing skills they can use to sew easy designs and make wardrobe repairs.
• Unit 8, Housing and Transportation, helps students learn universal design concepts to address housing needs for all ages. Information is also included to help you teach students how to buy and safely operate their first car.

Workbook:Designed to help students review content, apply knowledge, and develop critical-thinking skills. A wide variety of activities are provided for various learning styles. This supplement is a consumable resource, designed with perforated pages so that a given chapter can be removed and turned in for grading or checking.

Teacher's Edition: Presents a variety of instructional strategies in the margins of each page that are intended to guide you in reviewing and reinforcing the chapter content. Related Web sites are often cited along with technology applications and cross-curricular ideas. It also provides discussion topics, enrichment activities, assessment techniques, and correlations to the National Family and Consumer Sciences Standards.

Teacher's Resource Guide: Provides numerous instructional resources that support each chapter of the textbook including bulletin board ideas, introductory activities, suggested teaching strategies, test masters, answer keys, reproducible masters, transparency masters, and much more. All of the resources for teaching each chapter are conveniently grouped together.

The Teacher s Resource CD contains the following items:

• Teacher s Edition: A Portable Document Format (PDF) version of the Teacher s Edition, with bookmarks and search capabilities
• Teacher s Resources: The Teacher s Resources in a PDF version, allowing you to view and print pages from your computer
• Lesson Plans: Customized daily lesson plans in Microsoft® Word quickly prepare with our new easy-to-edit format
• Lesson Slides: Provided as PowerPoint® slide shows (PPS) and listed by chapter
• Answer Keys: The Chapter and Section Answer Keys for the Teacher s Resources in a PDF format, for quick and easy access
• Related Web Links: Direct Internet links provided for numerous content-related websites

Instructor's Presentations for PowerPoint This CD package contains presentations in PowerPoint format foreach of the 18 chapters, comprising over 400 slides of instructionalmaterial.

System Requirements:

Windows®: Intel® Pentium® II or compatible processor, Windows® 2000/XP/7, 128 MB RAM (256 MB RAM recommended), Internet Explorer® (6 or higher), PowerPoint® Viewer (free download), Adobe® Reader® and Flash® Player(free downloads).

Macintosh®: PowerPC® G4, G5 or Intel® processor, Mac OS® X v10.4, 128 MB RAM (256 MB RAM recommended), Safari® (2.0 or higher), PowerPoint® Viewer(free download), Adobe® Reader® and Flash® Player (free downloads).