Skills for Life

Junior Cycle Home Economics

Written by experienced authors Carmel Enright and Maureen Flynn with consultant reviewer Maria Hickey

New Digital Resources!

  • 30 recipes (PDFs) designed with a one-hour lesson in mind. Key skills are highlighted on each recipe.
  • A printable evaluation guide: includes a series of question prompts and a very useful work bank to encourage and support students to evaluate their dish and their practical food skills. 
  • A printable CBA 2 template: Students can use this template to record and analyse their chosen Food Literacy Skills Brief.

Specification Aligned

Fully aligned to the specification - the textbook follows the strand structure. Junior Cycle key skills highlighted in each chapter and relate to Home Economics.

Skills for Life provides dedicated chapters for classroom-based assessment and final exam and caters for mixed ability teaching with (colour coded) graded questions and extension activities for early finishers.

Teach with Confidence

  • Suggested yearly plans cater for sequential or topical teaching
  • Chapter teaching plans mapped to learning intentions, learning outcomes and success criteria
  • A clear, flexible planning guide for each year
  • Comprehensive topic plans
  • Active methodologies and assessment ideas
  • Wellbeing indicators
  • Quick reference to digital resources which include chapter and recipe PowerPoints
  • View sample units of work

Skills & Learning Log

  • Records learning over three years
  • Active learning methodologies
  • Self-assessment activities
  • Knowledge reinforcement
  • Revision
  • Caters for mixed-ability learning

Life Skills for Leaving Cert Home Ec

From the authors of Skills for Life and Lifelines, Life Skills has the right balance of concise content and exam-focus to help students maximise their results.

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