Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for a metals course for seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students. The seventh grade section includes 13 terminal objectives for a 9-week course and provides exploratory units in bench metals and sheet metals. Industrial materials and processes receive major emphasis. Basic activities covered are design, measuring, layout, cutting, forming, and fastening. The eighth grade section, a review of the seventh grade units with additional and advanced applications, includes 13 terminal objectives for a 9-week course. The ninth grade section is divided into two separate one-semester courses: (1) Machine Shop 1A is provided to review, reinforce, and expand the basic knowledge previously learned and contains 15 terminal objectives and (2) Machine Shop 1B contains 15 terminal objectives listed under the same headings: Safety, Introduction to Metals, Occupations, Lay-out and Measuring, Planning, Hand Tools, Abrasives, Drilling, Sheet Metals, Bench Metals, Welding, Forging, Lathe, and Finishing. (This manual and 54 others were developed for various secondary level vocational courses using the System Approach for Education (SAFE) guidelines.) (HD)