Grooming....Day 5

Objectives:
After completing today's activities, you will be able to:
---explain what should be included on a clothing label.
---identify the two basic types of stains and how to treat them.

Instructions:
1. An important part of looking good and feeling well groomed is taking care of your clothing.
2. First, you need to learn a few basics by reading. Using the Discovering Life Skills, read pages 354-361.
3. Put the FACS header on your paper. Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
---A. What do you think are three guidelines for keeping your clothes in ready-to-wear condition?
---B. Define the word "stain". How would you advise a younger sister or brother to get a stain out of his/her favorite shirt?
---C. Does a name brand label necessarily mean quality? Why?
---D. Name a few things you can do with the care of your clothes that will save money.
---E. Identify the steps to take when machine washing clothes.
4. If you want to keep your clothes looking their best, know what the fabric or construction of the garment dictates as correct care fro that garment. You will find that info on the label that is sewn into every ready-to-wear garment.
---F. Read all of page 355 (again) in Discovering Life Skills. List three things that will be on a care label that is sewn into every garment...many times, the back of the garment.
---G. Look at the care label in the back of your or a partner's garment. What does it say?
---H. Below, you will find the care instructions for a sleeping bag. To view it more clearly, click on the image and then click on it again to enlarge the print. Read the sleeping bag instructions carefully. On the same piece of paper that you have been using, answer the questions that follow the sleeping bag care instructions.

4. Put your work in your numbered notebook. Clean up your module area.

Materials:
---Pen/Pencil
---Paper

Equipment:
---Computer

Instructional Materials:
---Discovering Life Skills text
---Sleeping Bag Care instruction sheets

Question of the Day:
What area of today's lesson do you need to work on the most? Explain why.

Grooming....Day 4

You will need to work productively to complete this day's activity.
Objectives:
After completing today's activities, you will be able to:
---identify personal care procedures for nail care.
---Identify ten good grooming terms.

Instructions:
1. Today you are going to give each other a manicure. If you are not already aware of it, boys should know that males as well as females get manicures. However, they may not fingernail polish.
2. First, locate the video, "Manicuring" or click on http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-give-yourself-a-manicure. Take it to one of the TV/VCR's and view the video. There are no questions for you to answer. Rewind it and return it to the video rack.
3. The video was created to train nail technicians. You do not need to set up the area, massage the hands and arms, or trim the cuticle as they showed a professional doing. You will follow the instructions below.
-----A. Remove old nail polish or any surface dirt. Do not smear the old polish into the cuticles or surrounding tissues.
-----B. File the nails to the shape desired. You can use a file or emery board to accomplish this.
-----C. When you have finished with one hand, soak that hand in a soap bath to permit softening of the cuticles. Finish filing the nails on the other hand.
-----D. Dry the fingers on the hand that was soaking and soak the remaining hand.
-----E. Apply cuticle remover (solvent) by winding a thin layer of cotton around the bunt edge of a cuticle stick for use as an applicator. Put the cotton in the solvent and rub it on the cuticles.
-----F. Use the spoon end of the cuticle pusher to gently loosen the cuticle. Keep the cuticle moist while working on it. NOTE: Use a light pressure so the tissue at the root of the nail will not be injured.
-----G. Repeat steps "D" through "F" for the other hand.
-----H. Girls at this point you may apply clean polish as a base coat and then color for the second coat.
4. Now, it is time for the second partner to receive a manicure following the same procedures.
5. At the two minute warning, clean up the manicure materials by placing towels in the washing machine, washing the bowl, throwing away the used files, and placing the polished, etc. into the manicure kit and putting it away

Materials:
Pencil/Pen
Manicure Kit (nail clipper, emery board, nail brush, polish remover, clear polish, cotton, cuticle stick, colored polish)

Equipment:
Computer
TV/VCR

Instructional Materials:
"Manicuring" video

Scan this information to get additional guidance on how to give a manicure. Double click on it to enlarge it so that you can read it.

Start Manicuring!

Grooming...Day 3

Objectives:
After completing today's activities, you will be able to:
---list three good skin care techniques.
---list two reasons for frequent washing of hair.
---identify three ways of reducing body odor.
---identify two causes of bad breath.

Instructions:
1. Locate the video, "Looking Good, Feeling Good", on the back door.
2. Put your module header at the top of a clean piece of paper. Answer the following questions using complete sentences that include the meaning of the question.
-----A. What causes the skin problems that are likely to occur as a teenager?
-----B. What are four things you can do about these skin problems?
-----C. Why should you avoid squeezing blackheads or pimples?
-----D. Why is too much sunbathing bad for the skin?
-----E. Why do teens need calcium?
-----F. Should yo sue a cob or a brush on wet hair?
-----G. Why should teens and preteens wash hair often?
-----H. Why is brushing teeth especially important for teens and preteens?
-----I. You should use a new toothbrush every:
----------1. month
----------2. two months
----------3. time yours wears out
-----J. How are cavities in teeth formed?
-----K. What is accomplished by using dental floss?
-----L. How do the changes of puberty affect body odor?
-----M. What steps can you follow to prevent body odor?
3. When you are finished viewing the tape, rewind it and return it to its proper location.
4. Put the completed answer sheet in your numbered notebook. It will be turned in with the other grooming module papers at the end of the six days.
5. Ask your instructor to take your picture with the digital camera. This photo will be used later in the Cosmopolitan software application.
6. Complete any unfinished work from Activity Day 1 or 2.
7. At the 2 minute warning time, restart your computer, clean up your module work area, and make sure that everything is returned to its proper location.

Materials:
Pencil/Pen
Paper

Equipment:
TV/VCR
Computer

Instructional Materials:
"Looking Good, Feeling Good" video

Question of the Day:
What is your favorite grooming activity?

Grooming...Day 2

Objectives:
After Completing today's activity, you will be able to:
---list ten standards for being well groomed.
---provide specific information on how to maintain five standards of good grooming.

Instructions:
1. Later during this class period, you will have an opportunity to finish yesterday's experiment if you did not do so then.
2. Locate the textbook, Discovering Life Skills. Beginning with "Grooming and Personal Care" on page 18, read through page 23. Also, read the "Super Skin" article taken from Choices Magazine which is located at the bottom of today's blog. Locate the article and then click on it to enlarge it so that your can easily read it.
3. On the back of yesterday's lined paper, write the correct module header and answer the following questions in your own words and complete sentences.
Your Skin:
-------1. What are the three functions of your skin?
-------2. How often should you shower or bathe?
-------3. What is the difference between a deodorant and an antiperspirant?
-------4. What are some factors that may lead to acne?
-------5. How do blackheads develop?
Your Hair:
-------6. How often should you shampoo oily hair?
-------7. How can you help to control dandruff?
Your Teeth-Watch the video "Basic Dental Health" and answer the following questions:
-------8. Name the theory that explains why people wait a long time before they see a dentist.
-------9. What is plaque?
------10. List two ways you can help to prevent plaque.
------11. What is the purpose of using dental floss?
------12. How often should you replace your toothbrush?
4. Locate the worksheet "Checking Up On My Gooming" in the blue milkcrate. At the top of the worksheet, write your name. Provide the information requested inthe following way:
--A. For statistics, list your height, weight and age and fill in the correct figure shpae for you. (If yo do not know your height, use th tape measure mounted on the doorframe of the front classroom door. If you don't know your weight, use the scale under the Career Center. To figure you BMI, use this website, http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/Calculator.aspx or look at the chart on the wall by the FACS office.
--B. For the remaining ten "standards of good grooming", fill out the rest of the worksheet. In other words, if you like your current hairstyle, check "I Like It". If you don't like your current hairstyle, write how your'd like to change it.
--C. Complete the worksheet.
--D. When you have completed the assignment, leave it in your numbered notebook.
5. If you did not finish yesterday's activity, return to it at this point and complete it.
6. Clean up your module area and make sure that everything is returned to its proper location.

Materials:
Pen/Pencil

Equipment:
Computer

Instructional Materials:
"Checking Up On My Grooming" worksheet
Discovering Life Skills text
Copied "Super Skin" from Choices Magazine
Click on the pages to enlarge them so that you can read the material:

A copy of this worksheet can be found in the blue milkcrate. Each team member will need a copy.Question of the Day:
In your opinion, why you think good grooming can be such a problem for some people.