This curriculum guide is intended to assist junior and senior high school vocational instructors in presenting a course in manufacturing technology. The package contains a competency/skill and task list, an instructor's guide, and a bibliography. The following competencies are covered: the historical development of manufacturing (the interchangeability of parts, mass production, and the relationship between the economic system and manufacturing); manufacturing and the environment (energy sources, natural and synthetic materials used in manufacturing, plastics, the role of research and development, pure versus applied research, and major manufacturing resources); manufacturing in the future (space-related products, new product research, environmental considerations, automation, computer aided-manufacturing and computer-aided design, human resources, communications technology, and career plans); personnel in technology (the work ethic, employers' and employees'responsibilities to one another, considerations in establishing a worker training program, organized labor and collective bargaining, open and closed shops, labor legislation); industrial arts student associations; manufacturing in technology; management technology; and manufacturing enterprises. Each chapter in the instructor's guide contains introductory concept information and a series of competency sheets. Each competency sheet contains a competency statement, instructor information, and three levels of instructor activities. (MN)