This task analysis guide is intended to help teachers and adminstrators develop instructional materials and implement competency-based education in the course, Life Management Skills I. Section I contains a validated task inventory for this course. For each task, applicable information pertaining to performance and enabling objectives and criterion-referenced measures is provided. Nineteen content/concept areas are categorized under these major headings: wardrobe management, resource management, home management, food management, and family management. Section 2 provides a description of the Home Economics Education Consumer and Homemaking programs. These materials follow: a description of the course and a course content outline. The instructional topics within the course content outline have been cross-referenced with corresponding task/competency codes from the task inventory in Section 1. (YLB)