Guidelines are presented regarding the planning, layout, construction, and maintenance of outdoor playing fields for physical education. Consideration is given to the dual use of playing fields by the school and the community, the planning of hard surface playing areas, and specifications and bills of quantities. Maintenance costs of grass playing fields, specifications for playing fields and other games provisions, and seed mixtures and seed-turf analyses are set forth in the appendices. Diagrammatic illustrations are included throughout. (FS)