This curriculum guide is designed to help teachers assist secondary students in Alberta in meeting the following objectives: develop skills that can be applied in their daily lives, refine career planning skills, develop technology-related skills in metal fabrication, enhance employability skills, and apply and reinforce learning from other subject areas. The curriculum is organized is strands and modules. This guide for the fabrication studies strand contains 41 modules that define what a student is expected to know and be able to do. The guide is organized into the following sections: (1) program rationale and philosophy, learner expectations, program organization, curriculum and assessment standards, and types of competencies in career and technology studies; (2) strand rationale, philosophy, and organization; (3) planning for instruction for career and technology and fabrication courses; (4) curriculum and assessment standards for introductory fabrication competencies; (5) curriculum and assessment standards for intermediate fabrication competencies; (6) curriculum and assessment standards for advanced fabrication competencies; (7) assessment tools; (8) linkages and transitions; (9) learning resource guide; and (10) sample student learning guide. (KC)