What is Family and Consumer Sciences?

Any Ideas???

1. History2. Importance

3. Future Careers

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

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

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???

Lake Placid New York Late 19th century 10 years trying to develop the discipline of

Home Economics Oekology=science of “right living” and Ethenics=science of controllable environments

In 1909 American Home Economics Association

was a REALITY!!!

Importance

Why do you think Family and Consumer Sciences is important?

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

What kind of Jobs?

Brainstorm jobs that could be related to Family and Consumer Science