Considering the increasingly short attention spans of today’s Gen Z students, it’s more important than ever to use education tools that grab and keep your students’ interest. These educator favorites top FCS teacher wish lists right now for their ability to engage today’s feedback-hungry students, keep them interested in content and provide interactive, hands-on learning experiences.
RealCare Baby® Infant Simulator
Although the very first RealCare Babies are now old enough to have graduated college, these infant simulators remain a top choice for giving students a realistic taste of parenthood. These smart Babies cry for care day and night, giving students feedback-driven learning experiences, while instructors get measurable data, as well as hours of course content focused on healthy relationships and parenting as well as childcare career skills.
We’ve compiled our top RealCare Baby user resources, plus implementation tips and tricks. Check them out.
RealCare™ Geriatric Simulator
This wearable suit lets students feel what it’s like to age, restricting their range of motion and reducing their vision, among other things, as students attempt to complete daily tasks. Teachers love this education tool because it helps students develop a skill that is notoriously hard to teach: empathy. The included curriculum, student activities and assessments make implementation easy.
Get ideas for helping your students develop empathy and geriatric sensitivity in this free guide.
Butcher Beef Cut Models
No more messy meat models for your culinary students to study. These lifelike models are one-half the size of a steer, and include 21 magnetic models depicting the most popular cuts of beef. Options are available for studying pork cuts, too!
Learn what makes our beef cut models unique, from one of the engineers who helped create them.
Hydroponics Educational Systems
Wrapped with lesson plans as well as detailed instructions for getting started, our hydroponics educational systems are an educator favorite for their classroom-friendly design. Create a farm-to-school program with our Plant Producer Educational Hydroponics System, or experiment with different elements using our Plant Lab Educational Hydroponics Systems and Plant Mini Educational Hydroponics Systems.
Use this free guide to learn what you need to start growing fresh, healthy food in your classroom.
RealCare™ Shaken Baby Simulator
It’s one thing to talk about the damage a few seconds of shaking can do to an infant – or even watch a video. Watching a real-life demonstration, however, is a powerful learning experience. As you can see in the video below, this simulator’s head lights up to show students exactly where brain damage has occurred after just a few shakes. As the cries cease, students are left with a powerful lesson on the importance of managing frustration. (The included curriculum even includes a “Pledge Not to Shake” for students to sign.)
Food Truck Design Kit
We designed our Food Truck Design Kit to give teachers a way to offer hands-on design experience for students tasked with building a food truck business. This kit allows for optimal student interaction and learning while planning all aspects of a food truck business. It includes enough hands-on lab activities and lesson plans to teach a 3-week unit on food truck entrepreneurship.
Sample lesson: Download a Food Truck Design and Development sample lesson here
Online Employability Skills Program
We worked with subject matter experts to create the scenarios and activities in both our online and paper-based soft skills education tools. They referenced their own experiences and turned them into situational learning experiences for students.
Sign up for a free trial of our online employability skills program and access an entire lesson as well as the instructor guide.
Learn more
Looking for more FCS education tools? We suggest:
- Reviewing our other Career and Technical Education (CTE) best-sellers
- Exploring these recommended learning aids for career exploration
- Downloading our 2023 program catalogs to see everything we offer
