Lynn Jorgensen

I have spent the past 10 years at Gilbert High School in Gilbert, Arizona teaching Physics, AP Physics 1, and AP Physics 2. I started off with very limited supplies and no curriculum. This allowed me to create a curriculum from scratch for the physics program that relies heavily on modeling instruction-with lots of hands-on activities and an inquiry based approach. Which has taken the program from 2 sections of on-level physics when I started, to 9 sections this year. The AP Physics has grown as well in that time, from 2 sections up to 4, with 50% of the students from underrepresented groups. Most of my students have gone on to study science or engineering related fields in college.