This curriculum manual is one in a series of machine shop curriculum manuals intended for use in full-time secondary and postsecondary classes, as well as part-time adult classes. The curriculum can also be adapted to open-entry, open-exit programs. Its purpose is to equip students with basic knowledge and skills that will enable them to enter the machine trade at the machine operator level. The curriculum guide includes three instructional units: introduction to grinding machines, surface grinding, and cylindrical grinding. Each unit consists of eight basic components: performance objectives (both unit and specific objectives), suggested activities for the teacher, information sheets (content essential for meeting the cognitive objectives, written in topical outline form and keyed to specific objectives), assignment sheets, job sheets (a list of equipment, tools, and materials needed to complete a manipulative or psychomotor skill), transparency masters, tests, and answers to tests and assignment sheets. (YLB)