This guide, which is one in the "Exploration" series of curriculum guides intended to assist junior high and middle school industrial educators in helping their students explore diverse industrial situations and technologies used in industry, deals with exploring computer technology. The following topics are covered in the individual lessons: the parts of an information processing system (people, data, procedures--software, and computer technology--hardware); computer hardware (input, processing, storage, and output devices); computer software (elements in a computer system, types of computer languages, various computer languages and their applications, and procedures for entering a program); program planning; procedures for writing a program in BASIC; computer-aided design/drafting; computer-aided manufacturing; robotics; electronic publishing; and management information systems. The guide includes the rationale behind its development, hints to the teacher, lesson plans, student handout masters, teacher aids, a unit examination, and a list of references. The lesson plans include cross-referenced lists of objectives, lesson content, and learning activities. (MN)