Where can I find a practical arts book for 7th grade?
Practical arts has also been called “life skills”. According to the board of ed. this includes: industrial arts, home economics, business and agriculture. So you could teach your 7th grader one of the following: how to balance a checkbook, open a bank account, make a profit running a lemonade stand, how to do the laundry, mend clothing, cook a dinner, how to properly put out a kitchen fire, plant a garden, or repair a lamp, and so on. Those skills would all come into this category. I never used a curriculum or bought a book for this subject, and just added to the bottom of each page that “practical arts” and “life skills” were included in my child’s instruction. I taught them most of these things as a natural part of the parenting process. But you could certainly find books on each of the topics (cookbooks, how to handle money, gardening books, etc.), and choose your own focus.
