This core curriculum consists of materials for use in conducting a two-year secondary level agricultural education course. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: leadership; agricultural career planning; supervised occupational experience programs (SOEPs); agricultural mechanics (shop management and safety, drawing and sketching, hand tools, hardware, basic carpentry and construction, hot and cold metal agricultural mechanics skills, arc welding, oxyacetylene welding, tractor and machinery operation, basic electricity, small gas engines, and careers in agricultural mechanics); animal science (selecting livestock, caring for and managing livestock, feeding animals, providing health care for animals, and raising livestock); special references for animal science; agricultural business; and plant science (plant growth and reproduction, basic soils, soil conservation and erosion control, field crop management, range management, basic horticulture, basic forestry, crop pest management, agricultural chemicals, and career opportunities in plant science). Each unit consists of lists of objectives and references. (MN)