This guide was developed as a supplement to the Alaska Department of Education's industrial education curriculum. The special topics included in it focus on competencies from the curriculum for which materials were not readily available to Alaskan teachers and provide information that may not be sufficiently covered by existing curricula. Each unit begins with a teacher page that includes the competency and task(s) from the industrial education curriculum covered in the unit, an overviw of the unit, and a list of resources. The illustrated informational materials that follow the teacher pages have been designed for students' use. All of the units deal with fields that are constantly changing. They cover the following topics: mining and petroleum, communications, high technology, forestry and logging, technological impacts, and commercial fishing. They are designed to be integrated into the regular curriculum at the appropriate times. (KC)