Family and Consumer Sciences Courses

Grades 11, 12

Get hands-on with breads, cakes, pastries, and more while mastering core techniques and recipe planning. Create show-stopping desserts, adapt recipes for dietary needs, and build real-world skills that make you the ultimate pastry chef!

Grades 10, 11, 12

Get real-world experience running a catering business! Plan menus, cook for big events, and learn how to plate food like a pro. You’ll master kitchen skills, manage costs, and explore the latest food trends, all while creating dishes that impress.

Do you want to continue to explore the ins and outs of a catering business?

Students in this course will have hands-on experience working with Thompson School District schools and community members to plan catering events, compete in culinary competitions, prepare staff meals, and advance their culinary knowledge. Students will gain real-life experience by marketing events, analyzing the costs of food, creating grocery orders, menu planning, event planning, and developing customer service skills while catering events.

Explore how kids grow from babies to teens, focusing on brains, bodies, emotions, and social skills. Learn how parenting, play, reading, nutrition, and care shape development. Try the optional hands-on experience with infant simulators.

Learn to cook like a pro while keeping it healthy and fun. This intro course covers kitchen basics, safe food handling, nutrition, and cooking skills to make tasty, nutritious meals. Explore culinary careers while mastering tools, techniques, and meal planning for all ages.

Dive into the world of design in this hands-on course! Explore the elements and principles of design across interior design, fashion, merchandising, and more. Discover cool career paths that use design and figure out how your creativity can shape your future.

In Design Seminar, students will receive an introduction to the elements and principles of design as seen in both interior design, fashion design, merchandising, and a variety of other fields. In addition, it will introduce students to many careers that require design and allow them to analyze their own career pathways to determine where design may fit.

Discover that there is a vast field for working with children. In this course, those paths are explored while developing the skills to create a safe environment and applying the eight universal core values for the needs of children from prenatal stages to age eight. There are opportunities for hands-on experience through a “Buddy-Up” program in certain schools to apply your learning to the real world.

Grades 10, 11, 12

Prepare for working with children in primary grades, and start career preparation for elementary age children by going out into your community to experience this type of work firsthand.

Are you interested in learning about the world of education? If so, then Education Exploration is the class for you! This course will provide you with an overview of the education field along with a look at all the professions within education. You will also discover your own learning style and how your learning style will best fit professions in education.

• Work outside school assisting elementary school students and teachers.
• Have their own transportation, a positive manner, a nearly perfect attendance record, an acceptable scholastic average, and teaching as a possible future career goal.
• Supply the coordinator with three letters of recommendation and an application.

This course brings fashion to life through hands-on projects and creative exploration. Students learn fashion design basics, including sketching, sewing, and construction techniques, while studying trends, color theory, and influential designers. Discover your personal style and create a sewing project to apply your skills and bring your designs to life.

Take your fashion skills to the next level with hands-on projects in pattern making, sustainable design, and fashion merchandising. Draft your own patterns, create eco-friendly pieces, explore merchandising strategies, and bring your creative ideas to life.

Grades 10, 11, 12

From mood boards to floor plans, discover how to design beautiful, functional spaces. Learn the basics of residential design through color, lighting, and furniture layouts. Hands-on projects help you develop your own style, ending with a professional showcase that highlights your creativity and design skills.

Grades 10, 11, 12

Step into the world of commercial design, where creativity meets function. Learn how to shape restaurants, hotels, stores, and public spaces using color, lighting, materials, and layouts. Explore career paths and build real-world skills, ending with a design challenge where you pitch your own concept with a floor plan and design board.

Life Management helps you get ready for the real world. Learn essential life skills like goal setting, decision making, career planning, money management, and finding a place to live. Build the confidence and know-how to take on life after high school like a pro!

Grades 10, 11, 12

Life Management helps you get ready for the real world. Learn essential life skills like goal setting, decision making, career planning, money management, and finding a place to live. Build the confidence and know-how to take on life after high school like a pro!

Wellness isn’t just about eating right and working out, it’s about feeling your best every day. Explore practical ways to improve overall wellness in mind, body, and lifestyle. Build habits that boost your health, energy, and overall wellbeing.

Wellness isn’t just about eating right and working out, it’s about feeling your best every day. Explore practical ways to improve overall wellness in mind, body, and lifestyle. Build habits that boost your health, energy, and overall wellbeing.

Grades 10, 11, 12

Earn college credit while exploring the world of foodservice and hospitality! This National Restaurant Association-sponsored class covers essential food prep skills, industry knowledge, and the ServSafe Food Handler certification. Build communication and teamwork skills through hands-on experience, and compete in the ProStart competition for a chance to win scholarships.

Grades 11, 12

Take your culinary and hospitality skills to the next level while earning college credit! This National Restaurant Association-sponsored course covers advanced food prep, cost control, and industry knowledge. Earn your ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification, strengthen teamwork and communication skills, and compete in the ProStart competition for a chance to win scholarships.

Build strong, healthy connections that last. Dive into family and friend dynamics, sharpen your communication, and level up your relationship skills for every stage of life.

Grades 11, 12

Build strong, healthy connections that last. Dive into family and friend dynamics, sharpen your communication, and level up your relationship skills for every stage of life.

Learn how your choices shape your life, relationships, and future in this course. Explore real challenges teens face like personal growth, communication, relationships, substance use, mental health, and sexual health. (Loveland High School will offer an optional infant simulation project).

Learn how your choices shape your life, relationships, and future in this course. Explore real challenges teens face like personal growth, communication, relationships, substance use, mental health, and sexual health.

Concurrent Enrollment college credit may be available – see your school counselor for more information

Open to students from all high schools if they have transportation to Loveland High School.

Discover what it takes to become an effective teacher! In this course, you’ll explore how students grow and learn at different stages, examine teaching strategies for all grade levels, and discuss current issues in education. You’ll also gain real-world experience through 50 hours of field experience in local classrooms and learn about the important roles and responsibilities of teachers in today’s schools.

Concurrent Enrollment college credit may be available – see your school counselor for more information

Open to students from all high schools if they have transportation to Loveland High School.

Continue to build your skills and confidence as a future educator through hands-on classroom experience! In this course, you’ll spend time working alongside a mentor teacher, gaining 75+ hours of real-world field experience each semester, plus 10 hours of classroom instruction. Learn how to create a positive classroom environment, explore effective management and discipline strategies, participate in teaching activities, and reflect on your experiences to grow as a professional.

Learn to provide a practical introduction to the work environment through direct contact with professionals in the community. The content should include, but not be limited to, the following: discussion of professional job requirements, awareness and knowledge of career opportunities, building vocabulary apocopate to the area of professional interest, development of decision-making skills, and development of personal and educational job-related skills.