Climate Change resources for teaching, presentations, and displays
WSU Extension Master Gardener Program volunteers teach sustainable techniques for growing local food to improve individual & community health and wellness.
WSU/EMG Approved Presentations
The Resilient Yard
Battling Climate Change at Home
Synopsis: Presentation for homeowners who want to know what simple steps they can take in designing and maintaining their yard to battle climate change. The presentation is broken down into sections on climate change, lawn maintenance, garden bed design & growing veggies.
Approximate run time: One hour
Protect our Pollinators
from the Effects of Climate Change
Synopsis: Presentation for homeowners to help them understand the importance of adding pollinator plants to their garden beds and the positive effect this has for native pollinator species.
Designed as both a stand-alone presentation and one that could also be a follow-on to “The Resilient Yard” above for either a longer presentation or a return engagement.
Approximate run time: One hour
The Resilient Vegetable Garden
Synopsis:
Tools to Create WSU/EMG Approved Presentations
Download this Power Point template to customize for your climate change presentation, then follow the approval process.
General Climate Change Presentations
Download this Power Point template to customize for your basic climate change presentation.
Planning & Promotional Resources
The Program Priorities Toolkit is a guide containing a wealth of information for teaching our nine program priorities, including a section on local food.
Use this sample lesson plan for tomatoes or other teaching events by customizing it to fit your needs.
Use this template to create your own lesson plan.
Download a zip file filled with local food graphics for use on social media.
Other helpful resources
Continuing Education for Master Gardeners
Climate Change ‘Core Concepts’ Created by WSU Professor Craig Cogger, these ten short videos give a good overview of the topic from a climate science perspective.
Surveys
Coming soon
Climate Change logic model
Climate Change survey (Qualtrics)
Climate Change survey QR code
Climate Change survey half-page handout
Evaluation tools
How to calculate knowledge learned
Knowledge learned fillable worksheet
Presentation Approval
Compiling Presentations from across the state. We are continually expanding our library so that you can have the best selection of the most relevant topics. We welcome presentations targeted at any of our nine Program Priorities: Clean Water; Climate Change; Local Food; Nearby Nature; Plant Biodiversity; Pollinators; Soil Health; Water Conservation; Wildfire Preparedness
Submit to receive ‘WSU EMG APPROVED’ badge. If you have a presentation on one of these topics and you want it APPROVED, the process does require a bit of work. But, it’s worth it to ensure you ‘get it right’. Follow the link below to understand all you need to know about the ‘WSU EMG APPROVED’ process.
Join the Climate Action Team (CAT)
Do you want to become more involved? The Climate Action Team meets monthly to review progress on active projects; promote ideas for new projects; and seek project leads to move those ideas to active projects.
Throughout this site there are links to documents of various file types. Please contact our Statewide Program Leader if you require this information in a different format.