FACS WebQuest Links

Cotton's WebQuests
All About Me  Design a newsletter about YOU! Search to find what your name means and information about events of importance that have taken place on your birth date throughout history.
FoodQuest for Good Health - Become familiar with the Food Guide Pyramid, plan a healthy menu, classify foods eaten and read and understand a food label.
Parenting - Babies Don't Come With Directions! - Learn about the responsibilities and skills to become a good parent. Research an assigned topic and prepare a handbook for new parents.
Where Would you Like to Live? - You have just graduated from college and accepted a job with a large bank. You have the option of working in any of eight cities. Compare the cities and make your choice of where to live.
World Shopping Spree - Compare prices for the same merchandise in different English-speaking countries.

***TrackStar Lessons - Not developed in the WebQuest format but takes students to the Internet to research topics.
Buying a Car (New and Used) - Designed to help students go through the process of buying a car.
Buying a Home - Learn about buying a home and various types of home loans available.
Child Development - Learn about factors influencing the development of a child.
Parenting: Prenatal Development -Learn about the stages, factors related to, and what to expect in prenatal development.

Career and Work Orientation WebQuests
Business Plan  Create your own job by creating a unique small business.
Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker   How to select a career.
Career WebQuest - Research two careers and present information learned to the class
Life Skills and Careers WebQuests - Collection of webquests.
When I Grow Up, I Want to Be? Explore a variety of careers based on your personal interests and ultimately choose a career path and/or a specific career that is suitable for you.

Child Development WebQuests
Earning Money Caring for Children Working in a team, take the roll of babysitter, parent and child to research questions.
Positive Parenting Locate information about positive parenting, select and explore internet sources dealing with a range of behavior management issues, access practical tips and examine parenting strategies.

Clothing WebQuests

Consumer Education WebQuests
Budgeting:  Making Ends Meet  Get a job in a new state, buy a car, find a place to live, develop a monthly budget.
Planning Your Senior Trip - Plan your senior trip and develop a trip budget.
Spending Habits - Money in Motion  What effects your spending?  Compile information and create a newsletter.
What is a Stock  -  Activity adapted from the "Stock Market Game Guide".

Foods and Nutrition WebQuests
Cultural Foods Project  Research geographical information, cultural information and recipes of a particular country.
Dining on DNA Food science and the genetic engineering of food crops.
Nutrition Around the World Students will be responsible for developing a nutritionally balanced menu as well as traditional dress for the servers, table settings, and room decorations for a State Dinner at the White House. Also, be responsible for briefing the President and his staff on the proper method of greeting the visiting dignitaries, specific customs associated with social gatherings, and background about the evolution of customs.
Nutrition Class Projects Several webquests, nutrition activities and nutrition online resources.

Housing WebQuests
Buying a Home -
Dream House Web Quest Design your dream house and select your furniture and accessories.
Houses of Style  Research historical homes - learn aspects of style associated with each period, as you plan dream home.
Housing An Architectural Viewpoint  Designed to give a historical background of housing in the United States. 
Owning Your Own Home Find a home and an appropriate mortgage within your budget.

Relationships WebQuests
Patchwork of the World Vacation  Use the World Wide Web to gather information about three volunteer organizations.
Sticks and Stones . . . An Anti-Teasing/Bullying Webquest Activity - Research and develop PSA for target group.
What is a Family? Research how families differ and what is a family.

Teacher Resources
Curriculum Units WebQuest Links  WebQuests for a variety of curriculum topics and curriculum areas.
Family and Consumer Sciences WebQuests - WebQuests for a variety of topics
FACS Quest Creating an electronic research paper.
High School WebQuests  WebQuest listing for multiple subjects.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators about WebQuests Web Quest in our Future: the Teacher's Role in Cyberspace.
Short-term and Long-term WebQuests   Listing of WebQuests for multiple subjects.
The WebQuest Page Resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web.
Web Projects and WebQuests Resource list.
WebQuest Directory - Humanities topics  WebQuests for a variety of topics.
WebQuest Resources - NIHS List of online resources for developing and using WebQuests.
Mamaroneck Teachers Web-based Projects Listing of various problem-based task assignments.