Authors
Gaceri Mbaabu, Salome MungaiExercises kit’s authors
Gaceri Mbaabu, Salome MungaiPublisher
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The study kit contains 58 chapters and 24 exercises of which 12 are in the chapters and 12 in the task exercises.
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Authors
Gaceri Mbaabu, Salome Mungai -
Exercises kit’s authors
Gaceri Mbaabu, Salome Mungai -
Subject
Home science -
Grade
Form 1 -
Kit's language
English -
Publisher
Longhorn Publishers -
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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 |
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| 1.1. |
Introduction to Home Science
Free chapter! |
| 1.2. | End of unit test |
2. Personal Hygiene
Lead |
Chapter |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
6. Kitchen Equipment
Lead |
Chapter |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 11.1. | Stitches |
| 11.2. | Permanent stitches |
| 11.3. | Neatening stitches |
| 11.4. | Decorative stitches |
| 11.5. | End of Unit 11 Test |
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