DOCUMENT RESUME i ED 241 695 CE 038 362 , - ----... AUTHOR . Jones, Jimmie,L. - .. TITLE _Entomology Specialist 1-1. Military Curriculum Materials for Vocational and Technical Education. INSTITUTION Air Force Training Command, Sheppard AFB, Tex.; Ohio \ State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. PUB DATE 77 NOTE 644p. - . PUB TYPE Guides - Classroom Use - Materials (For Learner) (051) EDRS PRICE MF03/PC26 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Behavioral Objectives; Course Content"; Disease Control; *Entomology; Environmental Standards; *Equipment,. First Aid; Hand Tools; Herbicides; High Schools; Individualized Instruction; Insecticides; *Job Skills; Job Training; Learning'Activities; *Occupational Information; Occupational Safety and Health; *Pesticides; *Pests; Poitsecondary Education; Programed Instructional Materials; Rats; Supervision; Technical Education; Test Items; Vocational Education; Workbooks ° IDENTIFIERS Military Curriculum Project ABSTRACT This individualized, self-paced course for training an entomology specialist was adapted from military curriculum materials for use in vocational and technical education. Completion of the course should provide students with basic information needed to accomplish the following duties of an entomology specialist: perform entomological work, apply toxic pesticides, perform control operations and preventive operations, operate and calibrate dispersal and safety equipment, maintain tools and equipment,and supervise entomology personnel. The document consists of a student workbook with objectives, assignments, review exercises and answers, volume review exercises, and a test. The workbook consists of six volumes. The first volume introduces pest management and safety, while the second contains information about pesticides and the environment and pesticide dispersal equipment. In the third volume, pests carried by domestic(adimals are discussed, while in the fourth household pests such as spiders and reptiles are examined. The final chapters provide information on the.collection,°identification, and control of economic pests (such as stored product pests, structural pests, and 'ornamental-and turf pests) and vertebrate and vegetative pests (rodents, bats, birds, aquatic plants; grasses, and herbaceous broadleaf plants). The course in intended for,use in a laboratory or on-the-job learning situation. (KC) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made _ * from the original document. *******************************************-**************************** r.