For PLT Facilitators
Thank you for your commitment to use, lead, and share the PLT environmental education program with others. You are the keys to PLT impacting children's education statewide. Should you need assistance, please contact the PLT Montana Coordinator alexios.smith@montana.edu
Facilitator application (pdf)(docx)
Facilitator Training Toolkit (docx)
PLT Forest Classrooms Helping Raise Responsible Children
PLT: Resources to Engage Students in Learning
Facilitating a Workshop
Use our Timeline and Checklist (pdf) (docx) to help plan your workshop efficiently:
1. Submit your Workshop Proposal (pdf) (docx) to PLT-MT (alexios.smith@montana.edu) as early as possible.
This includes iformation such as:
- The date, location, and timeframe of the workshop
- Co-faciliator and others helping with the workshop
- PLT materials needed for the workshop
2. Submit any flyers/promitional materials and your tentative/draft workshop agenda to PLT-MT Coordinator.
Check our Planning Your Workshop resources below to help design flyers and fomulate an agenda.
3. At the Workshop
- Engage participants
- Be sure to collect these Participants Forms:
- Workshop Roster (pdf) (docx)
- 2023 PD Evaluation-short (pdf) (docx)
- Participant Information Form (pdf) (docx) (need if did not register through MSU-EF)
- Photo & Video Release (pdf) (docx)
4. After the Workshop
- Submit a Facilitaor Coversheet (pdf) (docx) along with the Participant Forms to the PLT-MT offfice
- Pay invoice if applicable
- Follow up with attendees
Always contact PLT-MT staff if you have any questions: 406-243-4706 or alexios.smith@montana.edu
Planning Your Workshop
Advertising Tools & Tips
- Marketing & Advertising Guide (pdf)
- Logos: PLT/MSU/SFI/DNRC/USFS (upon request)
Creating an Agenda
- Table for agenda planning (pdf) (docx)
- PreK-8, 6 hours (pdf) (docx)
- Early Childhood, 4 hours (pdf) (docx)
- Early Childhood-Growing up Wild (pdf) (docx)
- Carbon & Climate E-Units, 4 hous (pdf) (docx)
- Focus on Forests, 1-2 hours (pdf) (docx)
- PreK-8 at a Tree Farm
- PreK-8 Walk in the Forest (pdf) (docx)
Presentations
- General PLT Overview (ppt)
- Introduction to Early Childhood Guide (ppt)
- PLT in Action (ppt)
- E-Unit General (ppt)
- Treemendous Science E-Unit (ppt)
- Energy in Ecosystems E-Unit (ppt)
- Carbon & Climate E-Unit (ppt)
Hike the Guides
- Trees and Me-preK-2
- Trees and Me-preK-2 (pdf)
- Explore the Environment-K-8
- Explore the Environment-K-8 (pdf)
- Environmental Experiences for EC (pdf) past version
- PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide (pdf) past version
- PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide Talking Points (pdf) past version
- Green Jobs (pdf)
- Green Jobs Answer Key (pdf)
- Energy & Society Kit (pdf)
- Biodiversity (pdf)
- Focus on Forests (pdf)
- Forests of the World (pds)
- Forests ofthe World, 13 Steps to Walking, Talking, Thinking (pdf)
- Municipal Solid Waste (pdf)
- Places We Live (pdf)
- Focus on Risk (pdf)
Handouts
- PLT-MT Brochure (pdf)
- Montana's Forest Resources (In development)
- GreenSchools Flyer (pdf)
- GreenWorks! (pdf) Overview of the GreenWorks! grant program for student-driven community action projects
- E-Unit Overview: Treemendous Science (Grades K-2) (pdf)
- E-Unit Overview: Energy in Ecosystems (Grades 3-5) (coming)
- E-Unite Overview: Carbon & Climate (Grades 6-8) (pdf)
Walk in the Forest
Walk in the Forest: a guide for promoting forests & forest management (pdf) (This is a good handbook for planning prior to taking groups into the forest)
Walk in the Forest-Kalispell agenda (pdf)
Certificates
Hike the E-Units