Home Science Student’s Book 1

Longhorn Secondary Home Science Student's Book 1 is a new course book that comprehensively covers and and fulfils all the goals and targets of the new Home Science Syllabus.The book is well illustrated and simple to read, using language that is appropriate to the level of the learner. The content has been presented sequentially with each unit incorporating varied participatory student activities and revision questions. 

The student's Book is complemented with a comprehensive Teacher's Guide that, among other things, provides guidelines on how to teach the various concepts and answers to revision questions. Salome Mungai holds a B.Sc. in Home Economics and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education. She has 28 years of teaching experience having taught at Alliance Girls High School and Pangani Girls High School. She has also served as an examiner of KCSE Home Science. 

Gaceri Mbaabu holds a B.Ed. in Home Economics and M.A. in Guidance and Counselling. She has taught at Kilimambogo Teachers' College and is currently teaching at Pangani Girls High School.

1. Introduction to Home Science

Lead	Chapter
1.1.	Introduction to Home Science Free chapter!
1.2.	End of unit test

2. Personal Hygiene

Lead	Chapter
2.1.	Personal Hygiene
2.2.	Care of different parts of the body
2.3.	Care for the teeth and hair
2.4.	Care of personal items
2.5.	Cosmetics and changes in adolescence
2.6.	Choice, use and care of clothes and shoes
2.7.	End of Unit 2 Test

3. Safety in the Home and First Aid

Lead	Chapter
3.1.	Safety in the Home and First Aid
3.2.	Sprains, Suffocation and Choking
3.3.	Fainting and Poisoning
3.4.	Foreign bodies, bites and stings
3.5.	Shock, Drowning and Nose bleeding
3.6.	First Aid
3.7.	End of Unit 3 Test

4. Housing the Family

Lead	Chapter
4.1.	Housing the Family
4.2.	Essential areas and their placement in a house
4.3.	Planning the kitchen
4.4.	Methods of providing family shelter
4.5.	Buying, Renting and living in a staff house
4.6.	End of Unit 4 Test

5. Care of the Home

Lead	Chapter
5.1.	Care of the Home
5.2.	Methods of removing dirt from surfaces
5.3.	Choice, use and care of different cleaning materials
5.4.	Choice, use and care of cleaning equipment
5.5.	Daily, weekly and special cleaning of different areas in a house
5.6.	End of Unit 5 Test

6. Kitchen Equipment

Lead	Chapter
6.1.	Kitchen Equipment
6.2.	Labour-saving equipment
6.3.	Oven utensils
6.4.	Common metals used to make kitchen equipment
6.5.	End of Unit 6 Test

7. Food Hygiene

Lead	Chapter
7.1.	Food Hygiene
7.2.	Storage of perishable and non-perishable (dry) foods
7.3.	End of Unit 7 Test

8. Methods of cooking

Lead	Chapter
8.1.	Methods of cooking
8.2.	Frying as a method of cooking
8.3.	Stewing as a method of cooking
8.4.	Dry methods of cooking
8.5.	Roasting and Grilling as dry methods of cooking
8.6.	End of Unit 8 Test

9. Textile Fibres

Lead	Chapter
9.1.	Textile Fibres
9.2.	Animal Fibres and Silk
9.3.	Mineral fibres
9.4.	End of Unit 9 Test

10. Sewing Tools and Equipment

Lead	Chapter
10.1.	Sewing Tools and Equipment
10.2.	Choice, use and care of sewing tools(2)
10.3.	Choice, use and care of sewing tools(3)
10.4.	Choice, use and care of ironing and pressing equipment
10.5.	How to set up and use the sewing machine
10.6.	Care of a sewing machine
10.7.	End of Unit 10 Test

11. Stitches

Lead	Chapter
11.1.	Stitches
11.2.	Permanent stitches
11.3.	Neatening stitches
11.4.	Decorative stitches
11.5.	End of Unit 11 Test