Establishing a basis by (1) defining "system" and "systems analysis" and (2) showing how they can apply to curriculum design and evaluation, the author presents a five-step process, utilizing those concepts, for designing an industrial arts subsystem. (AG)

Provides a brief history of industrial arts curriculum development, a rationale for a technology-based study of industrial arts, and the use of a systems view in understanding and interpreting technology. (SK)

Discusses various elements which must be considered in the development of industrial arts curriculum: society and culture, human adaptive systems, the universal systems model, system processes, the role of schooling, and curriculum theory. (CT)

A process based on a systems analysis approach to tasks is proposed for developing a curriculum for the study of plastics. The process may be used with any subject area, at any grade level, to validate the concepts selected, the performance objective developed, the time allotted, and the teaching strategies selected. (AG)