Family and Consumer Science Targeted Benchmarks
Topic 3.1: Analyze the impact of family as a system on individuals and society.

FCS-3.1.1 Define family as the basic unit of society.

Family and Consumer Science Targeted Benchmarks
Topic 3.1: Analyze the impact of family as a system on individuals and society.

FCS-3.1.2 Describe the role of family in transmitting societal expectations, culture, and traditions

Family and Consumer Science Targeted Benchmarks
Topic 3.1: Analyze the impact of family as a system on individuals and society.

FCS-3.1.3 Identify global influences on today’s families (e.g., war, outsourcing, immigration, famine, etc.)

Family and Consumer Science Targeted Benchmarks
Topic 3.1: Analyze the impact of family as a system on individuals and society.

FCS-3.1.4 Discuss the role of family in developing independence, interdependence, and commitment of family members

Family and Consumer Science Targeted Benchmarks
Topic 3.1: Analyze the impact of family as a system on individuals and society.

FCS-3.1.5 Investigate the impact of change and transitions over the life span (e.g., interview people at various stages of life to gain insights, etc.)

Family and Consumer Science Targeted Benchmarks
Topic 3.2: Analyze the influence of diversity on individuals, families, and society.

FCS-3.2.1 Describe diversity and its impact on individuals and families (e.g., culture, ethnicity, gender, roles, age, economics, disabilities, etc.)

Family and Consumer Science Targeted Benchmarks
Topic 3.2: Analyze the influence of diversity on individuals, families, and society.

FCS-3.2.2 Identify examples of respect for diversity (e.g., gender, equity, age, culture, ethnicity, etc.)

Family and Consumer Science Targeted Benchmarks
Topic 3.2: Analyze the influence of diversity on individuals, families, and society.

FCS-3.2.3 Examine ways that attitudes towards diversity affects behavior (e.g., prejudice, acceptance, empathy, etc.)

Family and Consumer Science Targeted Benchmarks
Topic 3.2: Analyze the influence of diversity on individuals, families, and society.

FCS-3.2.4 Examine the impact of global community on the need to acknowledge diversity.