Collaborative units that work : teams award winners

Learn from collaboration masters! Read all about award-winning, standards-based collaboration projects that you can reproduce in your school setting.

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 you--in 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 levels--projects 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.

• Figures p. ix
• Acknowledgments p. xi
• Introduction p. xiii
• National Standards and the Collaborative Units p. xvii
• Section I Elementary Collaboration Units
• Chapter 1 Authors' Night p. 3 Betsey Kennedy and Barbara Powell-Schager
• 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
• Chapter 2 The Global Schoolhouse Project p. 11 Cally Flickinger and Jennifer Opel
• 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
• Chapter 3 Take-Home DVD: Improving Emergent Literacy Skills p. 17 T. K. Cassidy and Betsy Thornton
• 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
• Chapter 4 Thinking Like a Scientist p. 23 Mary Karlovec and Anne Michael
• 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
• Section II Middle School Collaboration Units
• Chapter 5 Where in the World Are Our Middle School Students Now? p. 31 Barbara Adair and Rick Norman and John Scrivano and Dana Thompson
• 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
• Chapter 6 Mathematical Nightmares p. 37 Nelle Cox and Shari Galgano and JoAnn Reynolds
• 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
• Chapter 7 One Book, One School p. 49 Chris Altobello and David Guest and Kendra Hamby and John McCollum and Debbie Pace and Sharon Scott and Brooks Spencer and LaDonna Walker and Susan Wilson
• 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
• Section III High School Collaboration Units
• Chapter 8 Teen Expressions p. 63 Lorraine Grochowski and Corrine Richardson and Booker T. Washington
• 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
• Chapter 9 Comic Relief: Using Graphic Novels with ESL Students p. 71 Leila "Bee" Manship and Chasity Markle
• 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
• Chapter 10 Internet Safety p. 79 Billie Esser and Mary Anne Knowles
• 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
• Chapter 11 Advanced Academic Literacies p. 85 Michaelyn Hein and Martha Hickson and Mary Loder and Caitlin Ryan and Lauren Sheldon
• 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
• Chapter 12 Culinary Reading Program p. 93 Wilhelmina DeNunzio and Carol Faas
• 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