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Course Outline

3 academic graduate credits

I. Program Overview

1. Requirements and expectations
2. Course format and emphasis
3. Pennsylvania Department of Education "Hot Topics" FACS update
4. Resource update from Penn State Extension

II. Work-based Learning Activities

1. Observation of Café Laura; lunch program
2. Participation in production of a theme dinner with students in HRIM 430 course
3. Food production processes, Center for Food Innovation
4. The role of government agencies in safeguarding our food supply
5. Tour of Berkey Creamery and activities at the Penn State Center for Food Innovation, Sensory Evaluation Laboratory

III. Technology Standards Integration

1. Food science and nutrition Web sources evaluation
2. Technology activities for teaching food science and nutrition

IV. Career Education and Work Standards Integration

1. Career education/work activities for integration in FACS
2. The relationship of career training programs to employment opportunities

V. Best Practices—Food Science and Nutrition Standards

1. Curriculum development
2. The relationship between diet and disease and risk factors
3. Best practices—research-based activities
4. Participation in middle and high school lab activities

VI. Educators Sharing Information

1. Participant exchange of successful instructional or education strategies
2. Collaborative lesson development

VII. Application of Course Information

1. Participants will produce a course project that applies course information and meets current learning needs of the participants.
2. The project will be shared with the class via a course wiki.

Course participants will:

• prepare a personal introduction cover sheet describing their school and educational responsibilities.
• prepare a precourse assignment to present to the group, which may include sharing information about the following: successful grants; excellent lesson plans; vocational student organization co-curricula activities and/or competitive event activities; examples of interdisciplinary lessons, projects, and/or strategies for applying basic skills within the curricula; service learning projects; technology lessons/units of instruction for educators in the workplace experiences; school-to-career activities; educational initiatives; etc.
• prepare a contract for study (reading) and application relating to the course content.
• develop a project applying course information that meets each participant's current educational responsibility/needs.

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