This business education curriculum model contains elementary, middle/junior high, and high school business education courses for Iowa students in the following areas: accounting, basic business, information processing, marketing, and general topics. A curriculum model provides specific courses for different educational levels. Each area contains units, and within each unit, the following may be included: introduction, course objectives, competencies, course content, teaching strategies, and references. Accounting units include recordkeeping, accounting I, and accounting II. Basic business units are as follows: introduction to business, consumer economics, business mathematics, and business law. Information processing includes five units: keyboarding, word origination, computer applications, business procedures, and business and office education. Marketing units include the following: principles of marketing, sales and promotion, entrepreneurship, marketing education, and a marketing education-related class. General topics are as follows: advisory councils, area education agencies, articulation, career education, certification, community colleges, continuing education, equity, Iowa Curriculum Assistance System, methods of instruction, multioccupations, prehigh school, professional organizations, program evaluation standards, public relations, small schools, special needs, student organizations, and training demands. (NLA)