$342,004.00

The Passport to Science program develops a pilot in three (3) diverse elementary buildings designed to produce a model of elementary professional development in science content, pedagogy and content pedagogy for teachers in the forty-nine IPS elementary buildings. Teachers will participate in summer professional development, implement model lessons and work independently with a science coach and university partners to align their skills and content knowledge with inquiry learning strategies and the Indiana State Science Standards of 2000. Model investigative lessons will be developed for each grade level.

May 2005 – May 2008

1. Creation of standards aligned lessons that increase student performance will be identified for each grade level K-6. A total of 105 lessons will be developed.
2. Students will engage in high quality science lessons in 95% of the classrooms in the program.
3. Administrators and a science team of teachers from 100% of the engaged buildings will participate in long term planning and implement the plan.

Ball State University - University partners will engage in one or more of the following: speaking at buildings, being a part of an “Ask the Scientist” e-mail network, providing distance learning or Polycom - enabled content enhancement activities, providing shadowing experiences for IPS teachers, suggesting lessons content, writing exemplars and rubrics or assisting with lesson implementation. Ten (10) Ball State University staff will be engaged.