1. What is Family and Consumer Sciences?

2. Any Ideas???

3. 1. History 2. Importance 3. Future Careers

4. History Founder: Ellen Richards Swallow  Born in1842 northern Massachusetts  Home Schooled  Attended Vassar College in New York Studied in the field of Chemistry Poor air and water quality Poor sanitation Nutritionally inadequate diets

5. Ellen Richards Swallow  Attended MIT  Became an Instructor at MIT  Helped establish First “Take Out” meals in New England Boston lunch program Rumford Kitchen  World Fair in Chicago 1893 Provided nutritious meals and nutrition education

6. Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862  Allowed domestic science to prosper  Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan were the leaders in offering “Women's Programs”  Any ideas why these states???

7. Lake Placid  New York  Late 19 th century  10 years trying to develop the discipline of Home Economics  Oekology=science of “right living” and  Ethenics=science of controllable environments

8. In 1909 American Home Economics Association was a REALITY!!!

9. Importance Why do you think Family and Consumer Sciences is important?

10. Educate individuals on..  Relationships between individuals, families, communities and the environment in which they live How...  Courses on...Consumer Science, Nutrition, Parenting, Family economics, Resource Management, Human Development, Interior Design and Textiles

11. What kind of Jobs? Brainstorm jobs that could be related to Family and Consumer Science