Skills for Personal & Family Living

Skills for Personal & Family Living, a comprehensive Family and Consumer Sciences text for the secondary level, helps students meet the challenges of their daily lives with confidence. They will learn practical skills for making decisions at home, school, and in the workplace. Career features called "Career Times" describe various careers, their preparation requirements, and personal qualities needed to succeed. New topics include accepting responsibility for decisions and their consequences, influences on behavior and decisions, promoting cultural diversity, preparing resumes, clothing label laws, multisize patterns, and trends in housing. Students can review the Skills for Personal and Family Living text content using our out-of-this-world game! The Skills for Personal and Family Living PowerZone Challenge Game CD offers a quiz-bowl format of challenging questions, 3-D graphics, sound effects, and voice-overs. Each chapter has two questions formats: multiple choice questions test students' content knowledge, while matching questions review vocabulary. Teachers can set game clocks to determine the length of the game's play period as well as the time students have to answer questions. Up to four students or teams can play at a time. The futuristic-looking graphics will hold students' interest, while question content reinforces students' learning experience!