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BY CARRIE WHITAKER • CWHITAKER@ENQUIRER.COM

QUEENSGATE - Foot by foot, Michael Karaus pulled out the short intestine from Stuffee, a stuffed character used to teach children about what's inside the human body.

Students from William H. Taft Elementary School visiting the Museum of Natural History and Science on Wednesday for its very first STEM Science Night stretched the stuffed tube to the back of the group.

"Hold it up," said Karaus, an employee with the museum inside Union Terminal. "It is 21 feet long, the average length of your small intestine."

The UC Economics Center is excited to bring this opportunity to the educators they serve. If you are involved in economics education, grades 5-12, you may be interested in this study tour program.

The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is now accepting applications for a Study Tour on Economic Education to the Republic of South Africa. The Study Tour is an activity conducted by CEE with funding from the U.S. Department of Education for the Cooperative Education Exchange Program (CEEP). CEEP is carried out in coordination with the U.S. Department of State

Recent concerns about employment and the economy have been exacerbated by a local unemployment rate over 10 percent. While everyone has felt the effects of the recession in some way, men and women likely have experienced the economic environment differently in terms of employment.

By Richard Wilson, Staff Writer

LEBANON — For the last couple of years, reports on the national economy have provided fresh, teachable moments in Frank Back’s classroom just about every day.

Back, 42, has taught economics at Lebanon High School for seven years. He was recently selected as the Economics Teacher of the Year by the University of Cincinnati Economics Center.

“Every day you open up the paper and there are things that are relevant to these students as consumers,” Back said. “We can draw on those lessons and drive home the major points of economics.”