The Building Industries Occupations course is a two-year program of approximately 160 three-period teaching days per year. The required course content is designed to be effectively taught in 80 percent of the total course time, thus allowing 20 percent of the time for instruction adapted to such local conditions as employment prospects, student ability and motivation, and physical plant characteristics. Each unit is subdivided by the following trade area units: site work/carpentry (40 percent), masonry (12 percent), electricity (15 percent), plumbing (10 percent), heating (12 percent), air conditioner installation (3 percent), and painting/decorating (8 percent). The area units contain a suggested average time to be devoted to learning experiences, a content outline, performance objectives, and additional information for the teacher. The final pages contain a resource list of texts and references, films, filmstrips and transparencies organized by trade area, and a directory of sources of these materials. (BP)