This curriculum guide emphasizes that economics is a method of thought or analysis and highlights the teaching of macroeconomic concepts. Definitions of economics, economic actions and their results, individual and group relationships, and supply and demand principles are reviewed. Macroeconomic concepts that are introduced include: (1) economic catastrophes; (2) measuring economic aggregates; (3) economic interrelationships; (4) financial markets; (5) money; (6) banking; (7) business cycles; (8) income and expenditures; (9) the labor market; (10) economic synthesis; (11) feedback problems; and (12) the government and economic policy. Tables and charts are included. (JHP)