Collaborative Units That Work : Teams Award

Collaborative Units that Work: TEAMS Award Winners is a compilation of some of the best collaborative lessons taught by elementary, middle, and high school media specialists and teachers. In this idea-rich volume, the TEAMS winners share their award-winning projects with youin a format that makes it easy to adapt to your own students and programs.Collaborative Units that Work: TEAMS Award Winners offers detailed unit plans for projects at the elementary school, middle school, and high school levelsprojects singled out for their clearly demonstrated collaborative nature, positive impact on student learning and achievement, support from school leadership, and the ability for others to replicate the project. Projects come with their creators' expert advice, examples, and strategies that will help you get staff and students excited and involved in true all-school learning. Innovative, classroom-proven, and imminently workable, these are the projects that show just how effective and captivating creative collaboration can be.

Kate Vande Brake is a former journalist with several years experience working in K-12 public education as a communications specialist.

Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
National Standards and the Collaborative Units	p. xvii
Elementary Collaboration Units
Authors' Night	p. 3
Project Overview	p. 3
Timeline	p. 6
Roles Defined	p. 6
Measuring Success	p. 7
Funding Your Project	p. 8
Materials and Resources	p. 9
Sustaining This Project	p. 9
The Global Schoolhouse Project	p. 11
Project Overview	p. 11
Timeline	p. 13
Roles Defined	p. 13
Measuring Success	p. 14
Funding Your Project	p. 15
Materials and Resources	p. 16
Sustaining This Project	p. 16
Take-Home DVD: Improving Emergent Literacy Skills	p. 17
Project Overview	p. 17
Timeline	p. 19
Roles Defined	p. 19
Measuring Success	p. 20
Funding Your Project	p. 21
Materials and Resources	p. 21
Sustaining This Project	p. 22
Thinking Like a Scientist	p. 23
Project Overview	p. 23
Timeline	p. 24
Roles Defined	p. 25
Measuring Success	p. 25
Funding Your Project	p. 26
Materials and Resources	p. 21
Sustaining This Project	p. 27
Middle School Collaboration Units
Where in the World Are Our Middle School Students Now?	p. 31
Project Overview	p. 31
Timeline	p. 33
Roles Defined	p. 33
Measuring Success	p. 34
Funding Your Project	p. 35
Materials and Resources	p. 35
Sustaining This Project	p. 36
Mathematical Nightmares	p. 37
Project Overview	p. 37
Timeline	p. 41
Roles Defined	p. 41
Measuring Success	p. 43
Funding Your Project	p. 46
Materials and Resources	p. 46
Sustaining This Project	p. 46
One Book, One School	p. 49
Project Overview	p. 49
Timeline	p. 52
Roles Defined	p. 52
Measuring Success	p. 55
Funding Your Project	p. 59
Materials and Resources	p. 60
Sustaining This Project	p. 60
High School Collaboration Units
Teen Expressions	p. 63
Project Overview	p. 63
Timeline	p. 65
Roles Defined	p. 66
Measuring Success	p. 66
Funding Your Project	p. 68
Materials and Resources	p. 69
Sustaining This Project	p. 69
Comic Relief: Using Graphic Novels with ESL Students	p. 71
Project Overview	p. 71
Timeline	p. 73
Roles Defined	p. 73
Measuring Success	p. 74
Funding Your Project	p. 76
Materials and Resources	p. 76
Sustaining This Project	p. 77
Internet Safety	p. 79
Project Overview	p. 79
Timeline	p. 80
Roles Defined	p. 81
Measuring Success	p. 81
Funding Your Project	p. 82
Materials and Resources	p. 82
Sustaining This Project	p. 83
Advanced Academic Literacies	p. 85
Project Overview	p. 85
Timeline	p. 88
Roles Defined	p. 88
Measuring Success	p. 89
Funding Your Project	p. 90
Materials and Resources	p. 90
Sustaining This Project	p. 91
Culinary Reading Program	p. 93
Project Overview	p. 93
Timeline	p. 95
Roles Defined	p. 95
Measuring Success	p. 96
Funding Your Project	p. 97
Materials and Resources	p. 97
Sustaining This Project	p. 98
Works Cited	p. 101
Index	p. 103
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