STEM to FCS Crosswalk
Addressing the need for STEM education and STEM success has a connection to Family and Consumer Sciences at the foundational level.
Family and Consumer Sciences has many connection to STEM which range from food technology, nutrition science, and textile industry to early STEM skill development. This includes critical and innovative thinking to effective communication and The ability to work in teams successfully.
FCS is applied science, technology, and math through context such as nutrition, food science, apparel, textiles, and interior design. FCS promotes the STEM philosophy through problem-based instruction pulling from social, biological, and chemical sciences. FCS is foundational STEM including a plan process model which offers instruction to the engineering design process.
Below is a crosswalk between STEM Standards of Practice and NASAFACS National Standards and Competencies. This is not a comprehensive crosswalk, but a beginning document to promote conversations about how FCS and STEM are interconnected at all levels.
Family and Consumer Sciences has many connection to STEM which range from food technology, nutrition science, and textile industry to early STEM skill development. This includes critical and innovative thinking to effective communication and The ability to work in teams successfully.
FCS is applied science, technology, and math through context such as nutrition, food science, apparel, textiles, and interior design. FCS promotes the STEM philosophy through problem-based instruction pulling from social, biological, and chemical sciences. FCS is foundational STEM including a plan process model which offers instruction to the engineering design process.
Below is a crosswalk between STEM Standards of Practice and NASAFACS National Standards and Competencies. This is not a comprehensive crosswalk, but a beginning document to promote conversations about how FCS and STEM are interconnected at all levels.