No matter how the question is answered, one thing is clear: There has hardly been a life in the last century that Eleanor Roosevelt has not affected, in one way or another. From securing safe, low-cost housing for Kentucky's poor, to helping her grandchildren hang a tire swing on the White House's south lawn, to representing America as the first female delegate to the United Nations, Eleanor rarely kept a second of her life for herself ? and she wouldn't have had it any other way.
No Quick Fix uses systems as the fundamental concept to help students in grades 6-8 understand cell and tuberculosis biology. In a series of widening concentric circles, students learn that cells are elements in larger systems, such as the immune system and the even larger system of the human body. Students also interact with the human social systems: health care and public education. They will take on the role of physician and begin to search for the cause and resolution of the problem. While unraveling the interacti