"Home Economics" is a term used here to designate a field
of education.
 "Home and Family Life Education" is a program in which
the school, home, and community work together to equip indi-
viduals to become more effective members of the family and
community in a democratic society.
 "Homemaking Education" is a program of organized ex-
periences designed to lielp in-school (secondary) and out-of-
school groups in the solution of their family living problems in
the home, school and the community, and to assist them in as-
suming responsibilities of homemaking.
 "Home Living" is a program centered on home activities
and relationships that will enable the elementary pupil, accord-
ing to his individual capacities, to adjust himself to his
environment.
 "Curriculum" is composed of planned experiences which the
individual has under the guidance of the school.

 "Evaluation" is a means of determining the progress being
made toward the attainment of goals set up by the individual
and it should be continuous.

 "Scope" indicates the range and variety of learning pro-
vided in any given lesson, unit, area or field of home economics.

 "Sequence" is a regular or orderly succession of experiences
in a continued series of learning.

 "Area" is a grouping of facts, generalizations, information
and experiences centered around any one aspect of homemaking.

 "Phase" is a segment of an area.

 "Experiences" indicate purposeful action resulting in some
sort of consequences which can in turn serve as a guide for
future behavior and which will enable the individual to refashion
the ideas that he had previous to the experience.

 "Activities" are characterized by a doing. When the activ-
ity is purposeful, it becomes an experience.

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