Salads, Smoothies and Student Engagement: Hydroponics Helping LA Students Grow Healthy Food
The biggest reaction has been, ‘wow, I didn’t expect to do this here,’… I’ve taught some of these kids two or three times already, and none of them expected to do this in food science.
Using RealCare Baby In a Pandemic: How an Illinois FCS Teacher is Making It Work
Melissa Priester is a Family & Consumer Sciences teacher at Grayslake Central High School in Grayslake, Illinois. (You might recognize her from her appearance in our recent “Baby Means” video and webinar about addressing teen interpersonal skills in the classroom.) Normally, Melissa teaches her Family Relations and Parenting classes in person, sending Baby home with […]
This SC FCS Teacher Is Using Infant Simulators to Keep Her Virtual Students Engaged
Amy Waddell is a FCS teacher at Bluffton High School in Bluffton, SC. Although she’s used to incorporating RealCare Baby and other infant simulators into her in-person classes – in fact, this is her 18th year teaching – this school year began on a vastly different note, with no in-person classes at all. Waddell knew […]
Balancing Safety with Student Engagement: How a MN FCS Teacher is using RealCare Baby in her Blended Classroom
The 2020-2021 school year will be Trude Sowada’s twelfth year using Baby in her FCS class, and her first year using the infant simulator during a pandemic. A FCS teacher at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School in Sauk Rapids, MN, Sowada taught much of her third trimester last year virtually. This fall, she’s conducting her child […]
Veteran Baby User Offers 7-Day RealCare Baby Simulation Experience to Virtual and In-Person Students
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Grain Valley High School FCS teacher Cheryl Beckman had just sent her RealCare Babies home with students. It was spring break in Missouri, so the timing was perfect. A 17-year veteran of the RealCare Baby Program, Beckman usually sends Babies home with students for a week. While her students were […]
High School FCS teacher Heather Boe reflects on her experiences incorporating RealCare Baby® 3 into her classes.
Heather Boe teaches Family & Consumer Sciences at New Richmond High School in New Richmond, WI. Her classes include Foundations of Early Childhood Education and Infant/Toddler Studies.
RealCare Baby® Gives Missouri FCS Students Authentic Learning Experiences
Since 2013, Battle High School Family & Consumer Sciences Teacher Amanda Klenke has used Realityworks’ RealCare Baby® infant simulators to provide her Child Development 1 & 2 students with authentic, hands-on learning experiences as they discuss human development. As a result, Klenke’s 14- to 18-year-old students leave the classroom more prepared for children in the […]