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New Digital Resources!
- 30 recipes (PDFs) designed with a one-hour lesson in mind. Key skills are highlighted on each recipe.
- A printable evaluation guide: includes a series of question prompts and a very useful work bank to encourage and support students to evaluate their dish and their practical food skills.
- A printable CBA 2 template: Students can use this template to record and analyse their chosen Food Literacy Skills Brief.
Specification Aligned
Fully aligned to the specification - the textbook follows the strand structure. Junior Cycle key skills highlighted in each chapter and relate to Home Economics.
Skills for Life provides dedicated chapters for classroom-based assessment and final exam and caters for mixed ability teaching with (colour coded) graded questions and extension activities for early finishers.
Teach with Confidence
- Suggested yearly plans cater for sequential or topical teaching
- Chapter teaching plans mapped to learning intentions, learning outcomes and success criteria
- A clear, flexible planning guide for each year
- Comprehensive topic plans
- Active methodologies and assessment ideas
- Wellbeing indicators
- Quick reference to digital resources which include chapter and recipe PowerPoints
- View sample units of work
Skills & Learning Log
- Records learning over three years
- Active learning methodologies
- Self-assessment activities
- Knowledge reinforcement
- Revision
- Caters for mixed-ability learning
Life Skills for Leaving Cert Home Ec
From the authors of Skills for Life and Lifelines, Life Skills has the right balance of concise content and exam-focus to help students maximise their results.