This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on developing programs for preschool children is the third in a set of four modules on establishing occupational programs in human development. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019 901-967.) Following the module objectives and overview, three units of instruction are presented: (l) early childhood education programs (with lessons in goals and types of programs and regulations for programs), (2) program planning for young children (with lessons in impact of programs on children, principles for developing programs, and a week's schedule for a program and facility design), and (3) organizations concerned with young children. Each unit includes the unit objectives and overview. Lessons contain narrative summaries, suggested activities, and resources (readings). A module pre/posttest (with answer key) concludes the document. (Workshop proceedings relating to the development of these modules are available in the ERIC system as CE 019 896-899; also available is a module on utilizing FHA-HERO as an instructional strategy to expand and strengthen the home economics instructional programs [CE 019 900].) (CT)