Developing Climate Relevant Content for Extension Programs Fellow: Duane Friend, University of Illinois
Fellow Report: The group is working on developing climate relevant content for Extension Educators to get them to where they are comfortable incorporating climate change content into their programming. Some of this content would then be used to extend to others, based on Educator feedback. The course will have the following sections: ● Basic Climate Science ● Climate Terminology ● Climate Communication ● Subject/Discipline Specific Case Studies (how it is relevant to my programming, stakeholders, etc.)
Educators that are already trying to incorporate climate change programming into their programming will be interviewed to develop the case studies.
Some of the course content for climate change , in particular the basic science, could also serve as content for general public programming, and there may be potential for incorporating the content into the master gardener and master naturalist volunteer programs.Some programming may be accomplished by offering an advance course where volunteers such as master naturalists or master gardeners are trained to offer climate programming to others. We are continuing to ask how we can leverage the content being developed to other means and other audiences, and how it could be useful across audiences. Future audiences might be rural government officials and rural communities with a resilience focus.
Another audience - agricultural policymakers.
Significant Results: N/A
Experience(s) working with your Coach, Catalysts and/or Key Informants as applicable. Work with Jessica has been pleasant and very productive. She does a nice job of facilitation.
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