"Houston Architecture: Collaborative Unit - The Librarian and Classroom Teacher" is a unit that encourages students to learn about basic architectural words through online research, timelines, pictographs, board games, field trips and brochures. It is also a unit that will provide five services for this librarian, the social studies classroom teacher and the students at her school. First and foremost, it will serve as a collaborative unit with the classroom teacher. It will serve as a bridge to correlate knowledge from the library environment to the classroom environment. Second, it will extend the "exploration of community resources" objective in the library rubric to the "learning about famous Texas landmarks" objective in the social studies rubric. By observing Texas landmarks as part of learning about community resources the two areas will no longer be two separate topics. Third, it will give students the opportunity to gain "critical-thinking skills to organize and use information" by using the "Big Six" format learned in library class during this unit. Students will be capable of seeing how to organize information in both areas so using library tools in a subject area they will have to use later on will make double learning in one setting. Fourth, it will provide students with online database searching skills in a topic that will transcend to other classes. And fifth, it will facilitate the use of more educational games in the classroom. We will play "Houston Monopoly" as a way to learn some of the places to visit in our community exploration phase of the lesson.