Family and Consumer Sciences Courses

Interested in learning how to bake breads, cakes, and pastries? Did you enjoy Catering? If so, this baking and pastry course is for you! It’s intended for students who are interested in baking and pastry or pursuing a career in the Hospitality and Culinary Industry. A combination of advanced food science, restaurant management, food preparation techniques, and real-world opportunities offer students the chance to develop their culinary skills and food knowledge and become highly sought-after employees within local food service businesses.

Grades 10, 11, 12

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

This course will provide students with a hands-on view of running a catering business, catering events, and preparing food for large groups. This includes creating menus, understanding kitchen equipment, controlling costs, learning various cooking techniques, and exploring styling trends and plating techniques.

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.

Do you love playing and working with children?

This course is designed to explore how children grow and develop—their brains, bodies, feelings, and social skills—from before birth to young adulthood. We will examine historical practices and how they have influenced child-rearing today. Through observation, we will see how playing, reading, nutrition, nurture, and love all impact a child’s growth. We’ll also identify the differences between discipline, guidance, and punishment while comparing various parenting styles.

Need to learn your way around the kitchen? Do you want to be able to cook meals for yourself that are tasty AND good for you?

This introductory course explores careers within the culinary industry, beginning with a foundation in nutrition and developing skills in safe and sanitary food handling, working with tools and equipment, and planning and preparing foods that are healthy choices for people across the lifespan.

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.

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.

Do you have a passion for fashion? Are you a #fashionista? If so, then this course is for you! It provides students with a broad exposure to aspects of Fashion Design, including basic fashion terminology, elements and principles of design, historical, social, and cultural influences, and basic sewing and construction techniques in a project-based course. Students will examine their personal style, analyze fashion trends and fads, explore color theory in relation to fashion, examine celebrated fashion designers, learn fashion sketching and illustration, and create a basic sewing project.

Have the opportunity to do an in-depth exploration of fashion design with an emphasis on pattern making, green and recycled products, and fashion merchandising. Students will draft a basic pattern, analyze fashion merchandising techniques, explore and create green products, and complete various projects.

Grades 10, 11, 12

Are you creative and enjoy doing hands-on projects? Students will gain an understanding of the elements and principles of design; learn to make appropriate selections of colors, fabrics, furnishings, lighting, and furniture; and develop skills in architectural drafting and space planning through the use of hand or computerized drafting techniques. The final major project includes a design scenario where students develop a floor plan, select materials and color choices, decide on the arrangement of furnishings, and provide a detailed report explaining the reasons for their choices.

Grades 10, 11, 12

How do you design a public space that’s safe and functional but still looks good? This course focuses on designing commercial spaces such as restaurants, resorts, hotels, stores, and more. Throughout the semester, students will identify the different careers within the growing field of commercial design. The semester will end with an opportunity for students to develop and present a unique commercial design for a client, including a floor plan and design board.

Grades 11, 12

Do you feel prepared for life after high school? Are you ready to #adult? Your future is closer than you think! In Life Management, students will gain a better understanding of real-world life skills such as goal setting, decision making, career exploration, workforce skills, money management, and housing/living arrangements. Students will leave this course prepared to take on the real world!

Do you feel prepared for life after high school? Are you ready to #adult? Your future is closer than you think! In Life Management, students will gain a better understanding of real-world life skills such as goal setting, decision making, career exploration, workforce skills, money management, and housing/living arrangements. Students will leave this course prepared to take on the real world!

Wellness is more than just eating well and working out! In this course, students will discover and develop strategies that will build lifelong, healthy individuals. Come explore all areas of wellness and how making small changes can make a big difference. Participate in various types of exercise that can easily be incorporated into everyday life. Learn the basics of nutrition and understand why what you eat matters. Sift through all of the “wellness” information in our society and choose products and behaviors that actually benefit wellness.

Wellness is more than just eating well and working out! In this course, students will discover and develop strategies that will build lifelong, healthy individuals. Come explore all areas of wellness and how making small changes can make a big difference. Participate in various types of exercise that can easily be incorporated into everyday life. Learn the basics of nutrition and understand why what you eat matters. Sift through all of the “wellness” information in our society and choose products and behaviors that actually benefit wellness.

Grades 10, 11, 12

Do you want to stand out from the crowd? Are you interested in gaining college credit while in high school? If so, then ProStart is for you.

ProStart is a nationally certified program where students learn about and gain skills in the foodservice and hospitality industries. Students will gain an understanding of the wide variety of career options available. Hands-on learning, applying skills, and meeting experts from the industry are just a few of the advantages of ProStart. There is also an opportunity to compete in the state ProStart competition, where they can win scholarships.

Grades 11, 12

Did you enjoy ProStart 1?

From culinary techniques to management skills, ProStart’s industry-driven curriculum provides real-life experience opportunities and builds practical skills and a foundation that will last a lifetime. There is also an opportunity to compete in the state ProStart competition, where you can win scholarships.

Grades 11, 12

What does a healthy relationship look like? Wondering if your relationships are healthy?

Every interaction we have with a person is a type of relationship, and each type of relationship should be healthy and meaningful. Developing an understanding of who you are as an individual will help guide how you invite people into your life. In this course, we explore the wide range of relationships and develop skills to make each a positive, long-lasting experience.

What does a healthy relationship look like? Wondering if your relationships are healthy?

Every interaction we have with a person is a type of relationship, and each type of relationship should be healthy and meaningful. Developing an understanding of who you are as an individual will help guide how you invite people into your life. In this course, we explore the wide range of relationships and develop skills to make each a positive, long-lasting experience.

Do you feel overwhelmed with the choices you face as a young adult?

This course is designed to help you navigate the hazards and rewards of your choices. It’s time to learn about how your choices affect your well-being, relationships, and your future. Explore the challenges that young adults face, including personal growth, communication, relationships, substance abuse, suicide prevention, and sexual health, with a possible optional teen/parent simulation.

Do you feel overwhelmed with the choices you face as a young adult?

This course is designed to help you navigate the hazards and rewards of your choices. It’s time to learn about how your choices affect your well-being, relationships, and your future. Explore the challenges that young adults face, including personal growth, communication, relationships, substance abuse, suicide prevention, and sexual health, with a possible optional teen/parent simulation.

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

Study the growth and development of the learner; evaluate teaching strategies at all grade/curriculum levels; study educational issues and policies; observe multiple grades and complete a 50-hour field experience in a school classroom; and examine the roles of the teacher within the profession.

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

Enhance their experience and understanding of classroom instruction and participate in field experience 55 hours/semester, field contact time with a mentor teacher—65 hours/semester, and 10 hours of classroom time; identify components of effective climate, management, and discipline; participate in teaching; describe, analyze, and reflect on their field experience.

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.