Home ec assessment 1

• Aspects of good personal hygiene


  • Wear clean presentable clothes
  • Hair combed and, or tied neatly
  • Bath regularly, twice a day.
  • Clean teeth regularly.
  • Keep fingernails and toe nails short and clean.
  • Eat healthy meals that will contribute to good health.
  • Exercise regularly
• Psychological changes


  Mental growth of an adolescent
• Well-groomed persons


  Take care of their appearance so that they may look presentable always
• Psychological Changes.

  This change relates to the mental growth of an adolescent. The changes are as follows:

  Improve old skills

  Learn new skills

  Train for an occupation

  Make own decisions

  Gets a job
• Define the following terms

  i. gestation- The period a baby grows and develops inside the mothers body

  ii. zygote- when the female garment egg is fertilized

  iii. embryo- 2nd - 8th WK of gestation.

  iv. vernix- a creamy substance that protects the foetus from its watery environment.
• 2nd-8th week Baby is called embryo
• After the eighth (8) week The embryo is called the foetus
• By the sixteenth (16) week the foetus is covered in fine downy hair
• At twentyfour (24) weeks the vernix is formed