Ms. Marquardt
CoursesLifetime Nutrition and Wellness
This laboratory course allows students to learn the importance of lifetime wellness, fitness and nutrition to build skills to make healthy food choices for a lifetime. Students are taught a broad spectrum of content areas integrated with laboratory experiences. Focus areas include: nutrition, food safety, sanitation, storage, and proper food production techniques. Student food labs occur weekly. Prerequisite: None One Half Credit Dollars and Sense
This course focuses on consumer practices and responsibilities, the money management process, decision-making skills, and the impact of technology. Students are taught the importance of savings and checking accounts, renting vs. buying housing, how to calculate how much housing a person can afford, how to improve a credit score, and budgeting skills. This course is ideal for the student getting ready to move out on their own in the next 1-2 years.
Prerequisite: None One Half Credit The students develop a budget using the website given here: Interior Design
This course focuses on the design of residential and nonresidential interior environments to achieve occupant well-being and productivity. Content addresses design elements, principles, practices and influences. Lighting, materials/fabrics, furnishings, budgeting, consumer decision-making, safety, care and maintenance of interiors, impact of technology on interiors and career preparation are also addressed. Students will use software and websites to design both 2-D and 3-D versions of rooms. Students will submit larger scale projects utilizing the skills acquired in class.
Prerequisite: None One Half Credit The link given below is one of the websites used in class for student projects. Check it out! Be an Interior Designer with just a few clicks! Interpersonal Studies
This course examines how the relationships between individuals and among family members significantly affect the quality of life. Students will acquire skills to enhance personal development, foster quality relationships including dating and marriage, promote wellness of family members, and manage multiple adult roles. The student will learn about themselves, their personality, body language, love, healthy and unhealthy relationships, roles in successful family life, and responsibilities of adulthood.
Prerequisite: None One Half Credit |
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Ms. Marquardt joined Progressive High School as the Family and Consumer Science (FACS) teacher for the 2012-13 school year. Ms. Marquardt earned her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from the University of Missouri (1989) and taught FACS for five years in the state of Missouri (grades 7-12). She is also certified in Special Education
EC-12. During that time, she also taught Life Science, Study Skills, and Health. Ms. Marquardt then moved cross country to take her Masters of Fine Arts in Costume Production/Technology from Boston University (1999). Following that, she taught costuming for one year at the State University of New York-Albany and worked for many professional opera and theatre houses throughout the nation. Ms. Marquardt moved to Houston in 2000 and is thrilled to be back in the secondary classroom. Ms. Marquardt’s classes include Lifetime Nutrition and Wellness, Interior Design, Dollars and Sense, Child Development, Fashion Design, and Interpersonal Relations, and Co-Op. She and her son Jesse (adopted from Guatemala in 2007), reside in Fort Bend County. |
Fashion DesignThis course focuses on garments from the perspective of personal decision-making related to apparel, the apparel industry, and career preparation. Topics include managing the apparel dollar, textiles and fiber identification, and textile management. Quality apparel construction techniques are applied in a lab setting as students construct basic garments.
Prerequisite: None One Credit |
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Co-OpAn occupationally-specific course designed to provide classroom technical instruction and on-the-job experiences. Students will exit the course with OSHA certification. Topics covered include understanding a paycheck stub, taxes, building a resume, and the job interview process.
Prerequisite: None One Credit |
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