This curriculum resource guide on plastics manufacturing and assembling is one of a series of seventeen specialized curriculum guides for occupational education of the marginal, handicapped, or special needs occupational education student. The guide begins with six behavior clusters that contain a series of forty-two instructional topics designed to teach job-required behavior skills common to all employment: accuracy and productivity, initiative and perseverance on the job, positive response to direction and supervision, regularity and punctuality, self-reliance and reliability, and work tolerance. Learning activities and performance objectives are included for each topic. The remainder of the guide is comprised of job modules for occupations such as assembly worker, blow molding machine operator, calendering operator, carton assembler, extruder operator, garment boxer, paint sprayer, paper cutter and wrapper, plastic and cellophane package sealer, and production assistant. Each job module begins with a job description followed by suggested instructional activities and a performance objective for each instructional topic. Also included are appropriate personal appearance topics. (LRA)