This publication can be used as: a guide for improving, expanding, and balancing the existing energy and resource conservation education program; a resource for planning appropriate inservice education activities in energy and resource conservation education for school district personnel; and a source of information for locating high quality curricular materials, background information, and community resources. It consists of seven chapters which focus on, respectively: (1) energy and resource conservation in the curriculum (examining components and outcomes related to lifelong learning skills, concepts and understandings, and ethical behavior); (2) energy and resource conservation in the course of study (with excerpts from school district philosophies, program philosophies, program goals, and with suggestions for constructing a model course of study); (3) choosing energy and resource conservation activities; (4) teaching strategies; (5) planning inservice programs and types of inservice actvities; (6) using nonschool resources (including local resources, stage agency resources, state organizations, national organizations, and federal agencies); and (7) summary information. Appendices include biographical sketches of individuals who have made a contribution to envrionmental/conservation education and lists of curriculum and other types of resources. (JN)