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.
Author(s): Kate Vande Brake
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 90
Contents
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Figures
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Acknowledgments
......Page 12
Introduction
......Page 14
National Standards and the Collaborative Units......Page 18
Section 1: Elementary Collaboration Units......Page 22
1. Authors’ Night......Page 24
2. The Global Schoolhouse Project......Page 32
3. Take-Home DVD: Improving Emergent Literacy Skills......Page 38
4. Thinking Like a Scientist......Page 44
Section II: Middle School Collaboration Units......Page 50
5. Where in the World Are Our Middle School Students Now?......Page 52
6. Mathematical Nightmares......Page 58
7. One Book, One School......Page 70
Section III: High School Collaboration Units......Page 82
8. Teen Expressions......Page 84
9. Comic Relief: Using Graphic Novels with ESL Students......Page 92
10. Internet Safety......Page 100
11. Advanced Academic Literacies......Page 106
12. Culinary Reading Program......Page 114
Works Cited......Page 122
Index......Page 124
