A comprehensive guide for home economists, the article treats five major ideas for planning home economics departments in schools, as follows--(1) the importance of sharing the planning responsibility among teacher, parent, and administrator, citing an example of successful planning, (2) the need for teaching methods, course content and equipment to be flexible enough to keep pace with increasing social and technological changes, (3) the use of available current literature, importance of individual decision-making, with a working aid giving exact requirements and materials used in planning the Gary, Indiana, junior high schools, and (5) guidelines to help students and teachers make full use of their new home economics facilities. (KK)