These instructional materials include a teacher's guide designed to assist instructors in organizing and presenting a unit of study on manufacturing technology and a student guide. The materials are based on the curriculum-alignment concept of first stating the objectives, developing instructional strategies for teaching those objectives, and then evaluating based on the objectives. Topics covered in the teacher materials include the following: using Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT) media programs; attachment-point construction; and forming, casting, and conditioning a paperweight casting. The teacher edition includes the following: suggested activities, learning activities sheet, optional assignment sheets, answers to assignment sheets, teacher supplements, written test, answers to written test, and unit evaluation form. In addition, the teacher edition includes a section on use of the publication, a competency profile, instructional and task analyses, academic and workplace skill classifications and definitions, and a related academic and workplace skills list. Topics covered in the student materials are as follows: manufacturing careers, materials and processes used to produce a manufactured produce, elements of the methods used to process the basic industrial materials, planning a production process, evaluating a production process, fabricating and testing composite materials, composite materials used in airframe manufacturing, and wing-spar pattern. The student edition includes the following components of a unit of instruction: objective sheet, information sheet, assignment sheets, lab activity sheets, and student supplements. (KC)