This curriculum package is designed to prepare students with highly technical information that will lead to success in the animal science field. It contains 19 units that highlight many of the specialist areas and teach students how to apply these skills. The units cover the following topics: safety, careers, private and government programs, selecting and breeding livestock, animal health care, and livestock and poultry marketing and pricing. Each of the instructional units includes some or all of the basic components of a unit of instruction: performance objectives, suggested activities for the instructor, information sheets, student supplements, transparency masters, instructional supplements, activity sheets, job sheets, practical tests, written test, answers to assignment sheets and written test, and Learning Activity Package (LAP) sheets. These components are contained within three packages. An instructor's manual includes the following: measuring student performance gains, criteria for competency-based education, a curriculum, duty, and task crosswalk, a basic skills matrix, one set per unit of the instructor's guide, answers, test code sheets, and instructional supplements for the basic skills sections. The instructor's resource package contains one set per unit of LAP sheets, transparency masters, a written test, handouts, and suggestions for other media. The student workbook contains the objective sheets, information sheets, assignment sheets, and job sheets. All of the units focus on measurable and observable learning outcomes and are designed for use in more than one lesson or class period of instruction. (KC)