Online Family & Consumer Sciences Resources

Family & Consumer Sciences

Online Resources

Sue Updegraff, Organizational Development

Association of Career and Technical Education (ACTE): http://www.avaonline.org

Blue Web'n
A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web.: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/
bluewebn

Internet Searching: The Basics
This site was developed by Norma Thiese, Consultant with Keystone AEA. It is a sampling of resources that educators can use for locating educational resources on the internet.: http://www.aea1.k12.ia.us/norma/
isb.html

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide

National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE): http://vocserve.berkeley.edu

Nutrition Café
Nutrition information in game format.: http://www.exhibits.pacsci.org/nutrition

Nutrition on the Web for Teens
A student-created ThinkQuest site with information on exercise, recipes, health myths, basal metabolism rates and calorie database.: http://library.thinkquest.org/10991

Shape Up America!
Information about safe weight management, healthy eating, increased activity and physical fitness.: http://www.shapeup.org

TrackStar
TrackStar is an on-line interface that helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) into lessions. Instructors may also locate and use tracks that have already been created.: http://trackstar.scrtec.org

Keystone Area Education Agency does not control the contents of the sites listed. The currency of data, comprehensiveness, and relevancy of the information on these sites is the entire responsibility of each site's content manager.