Glencoe's Discovering Life Skills puts students on the path to discovery and excellence!

Discovering Life Skills excels at preparing students for the future and putting them on the path towards discovery and excellence. Students are encouraged to discover exciting career paths, determine goals, and manage their lives. Differentiated teaching involves all students and allows teachers to better understand the needs of the classroom. Includes: hardbound student edition aligned to the content standards.

Discovering Life Skills opens the door to life for middle school students! This text is a comprehensive overview of all family and consumer sciences areas. Content is correlated to popular modules used in middle schools. The reader friendly style involves all students in reading, discussion, and doing. The reader friendly style involves all students in reading, discussion, and doing.

Discovering Life Skills is an exploratory overview of Family and Consumer Sciences designed for middle school use. Discovering Life Skills can be used for a six-week, nine-week, or semester course. The 25 chapters correlate to the FACS modules sold by a variety of vendors. See the Module Crosswalk in the Teacher Resource Guide. The content of Discovering Life Skills may be used along with popular modules often used in middle schools. Career Choices pages provide information about four careers related to the chapter, along with activities that link career choices to school and the workplace. Discover pages offer students an opportunity to apply their learning to a practical life skill by developing and implementing a plan and evaluating the result. Closer Look provides students an in-depth view of need-to-know topics such as how to say "NO", handling stress, organizing your closet, and practicing good citizenship skills. Internet Activities encourage students to search for information on the Internet related to the content of each chapter. Making Connections provides the curriculum links between Family and Consumer Sciences to Math, Science and Social Studies.

Student Activity Workbook

A beautifully illustrated book that covers the essential life skills that kids need to know Discover how you can become the awesome person you want to be with this guide to essential life skills for kids. This life book tackles the difficulties that kids face and helps prepare them for whatever the future may hold. Inside the pages of your essential life skills book, you’ll discover: • Life skills education is an important topic, especially for children, as highlighted by the World Health Organization (WHO) • Beautiful illustrations accompanied by stunning photography help to engage readers to digest complex topics like understanding body language and decision making • Topics that drill down into all the different aspects of life skills education for 7–9-year-olds, such as communication, solving problems, making decisions, understanding yourself and others, critical thinking skills, and coping in difficult times • Practical advice on how to think up solutions for difficult problems, how to work with other people as a team, and how to write a feelings diary using mindfulness An illustrated guide book for kids that includes practical advice and real-life examples that teach problem-solving, how to make good decisions, and excellent communication skills. Kids will learn how to better understand themselves and others, as well as create coping strategies for difficult situations. Kids can work through engaging activities like making mind maps, thinking about body language, and putting themselves in someone else’s shoes. Developing life skills not only leads to better prospects at school and in a future career, but it also gives young people higher self-esteem to aim for a bright, secure and happy future.