This curriculum guide is designed for use by South Carolina vocational education teachers as a continuing set of lesson plans for a two-year course on welding. Covered in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: an orientation to welding, oxyacetylene welding, advanced oxyacetylene welding, shielded metal arc welding, TIG welding, and MIG welding. Each section contains a series of lesson plans that includes a suggested instructional time, behavioral or performance standards, criteria denoting a measure by which the student and instructor know when the objectives have been successfully completed, related references or resources, instructor directions for presenting the information, student activities to reinforce instruction, and review points for the student. A bibliography containing resources to supplement each unit and a list of needed equipment conclude the guide. (MN)