This instructor's guide is designed for use by industrial vocational teachers in teaching a course on basic pneumatics. Covered in the individual units are the following topics: an introduction to pneumatics (including the operation of a service station hoist); fundamentals and physical laws; air compressors (positive displacement compressors; velocity compressors; service and operation of a hand bicycle pump; and compressor installation, safety, and noise control); compressor accessories (air intake, silencers, and mufflers; air coolers and air dryers; receiver tanks; air filter, regulator, and lubricators; and disassembling, inspecting, and reassembling an air filter-regulator-lubricator unit); actuators (cylinders, pressure boosters, and pneumatic motors); and pressure and flow measurement. Each unit contains a note on the scope of the unit, lesson objectives, supplementary teaching and learning items, a student information assignment, an introduction, an outline of information to be covered, evaluation items, answers to the evaluation items, and transparency masters. (MN)