It has been a great week and a half of Student Teaching  so far at Shippensburg Area Senior High School.  This week, I had to opportunity to visit Mrs. Lawrence's classroom to observe her AP Physics class.  Mrs. Lawrence is clearly the favorite science teacher in the building. I asked many of Mrs. Bier's classes who I should observe for this assignment, and all of their answers included Mrs. Lawrence.  So, on Tuesday January 17th, I observed Mrs. Lawrence's third block. Seeing that this is an AP class, it is what Shippensburg calls a "skinny", a shorter block that is able to run year long.  Tuesday's lesson was titled "Magnetic Flux and Faraday's Law". The lesson included rigorous content preparing students for their AP Exam. The objectives of the lesson were: The student can create representations and models of natural or man-made phenomena and systems in the domain, The student can use representations and models to analyze situations or solve ...