Acknowledgments

As explained in Appendix F, this resource book is in some aspects the result of 35 years of involvement in education about energy and energy issues. Thus the acknowledgments should include the many people at The Calhoun School, the National Energy Foundation, the NSTA Project for an Energy-Enriched Curriculum, and the New York Energy Education Project who encouraged and nurtured my career in energy education. That list would be very long, and I could not help but regret inevitable omissions. But, among my fellow Physics Teaching Resource Agents, I would like to single out seven people for their helpfulness and support:

• Jim Nelson, the guiding spirit of PTRA from the beginning, for inviting me to develop this resource book—and the confidence that that implied. I also want to thank Jim for invaluable feedback and continued support.

• George Amann, who was always prompt in providing feedback and encouraged me at every step along the way.

• Debbie and Rex Rice, for introducing me to the method of graphical analysis in their PTRA workshop of the same title in Boise in 2002. I have sought to use that approach as the backbone of the analysis in most of the activities in this book.

• Jane Nelson and Karen Jo Matsler, for encouraging me to write generic laboratory instructions in addition to those specific for CBL and LabPro, and to inject more of an inquiry point of view.

• Deborah Roudebush, from whom I have learned so much in presenting PTRA workshops at the Harrisonburg, VA, PTRA rural center at James Madison University. In co-presenting the activities in this book with me in Madison, WI, in 2003, Deborah established her own ownership of them and added her own pedagogical touches that have been so meaningful in the years we have worked together. I have sought to include those pedagogical touches in the final form of these activities.

I would also like to thank the following for their direct contributions to this resource book:

• Gregg Swackhamer of Glenview (IL) High School, for allowing me to include his Energy Concept Inventory as Appendix D.

• Alan Van Heuvelen of Rutgers University, for allowing me to include his paper from the February 2001 American Journal of Physics as Appendix G.

• Pat Keefe of Clatsop Community College (OR) and Greg Mulder of Linn-Benton Community College (OR), for making available their spreadsheets for planning future energy sources for the United States and the world, respectively.

• Jane Chambers, for her efficient and conscientious editing of this book and expediting its publication.

But in spite of all the help I have had, the ultimate responsibility for the contents of this resource book is mine. Future corrections and improvements will be made by its users. Please share them with me at [email protected].

John L. Roeder

West Windsor, NJ

April 2008