Montana PLT

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.brown@montana.edu.

Facilitating a Workshop

Use our Facilitator Checklist to help plan your workshop efficiently:

1.  Submit your Workshop Proposal to PLT-MT (alexiosbrown@montana.edu) as early as possible. 

     This includes information such as:

  • The date, location, and timeframe of the workshop
  • Co-facilitator and others helping with the workshop
  • PLT materials needed for the workshop

2.  Submit any flyers/promotional materials and your tentative/draft workshop agenda to PLT-MT Coordinator.

    Check our Planning Your Workshop resources below to help design flyers and formulate an agenda.

3.  At the Workshop

  • Engage participants
  • Be sure to collect these participants forms (workshop roster, current year PD evaluation-short, participant information form, and photo & video release - if not completed online).

4.  After the Workshop

  • Submit a Facilitator Coversheet along with the Participant Forms to the PLT-MT office
  • Follow up with attendees

Always contact PLT-MT staff if you have any questions:  406-243-4706 or alexios.brown@montana.edu 

Facilitator Items

Items Available Upon Request

alexiosbrown@montana.edu

Facilitator Items

Hike the Guides 

If you do not see a activity guide hike contact the state coordinator 

Resources

E-Units

Facilitator Pre-workshop Items

  • Workshop Roster 
  • Participant Information Form 
  • Photo & Video Release 
  • Facilitator Training Toolkit 

Post Workshop Items

  • Professional Development Evaluation (printable version)
  • Facilitator Coversheet 

Agenda Temples 

  • Educator PD Event Agenda
  • Table for agenda planning 
  • PreK-8, 6 hours 
  • Early Childhood, 4 hours 
  • Early Childhood-Growing up Wild 
  • Carbon & Climate E-Units, 4 hours
  • Focus on Forests, 1-2 hours 
  • PreK-8 Walk in the Forest
  • Walk in the Forest-Kalispell agenda 
  • Logos: PLT/MSU/SFI/DNRC/USFS (upon request)

Presentations PowerPoint

  • General PLT Overview Template 
  • General PLT Template 
  • Introduction to Early Childhood Guide 
  • E-Unit General 
  • Tremendous Science E-Unit 
  • Energy in Ecosystems E-Unit 
  • Carbon & Climate E-Unit  

Hike the E-Units PowerPoint

  • E-Unit General Hike 
  • Tremendous Science 
  • Energy in Ecosystems 
  • Carbon & Climate 

Certificates

  • Certificate of Completion 

 

Updated 9/25/2025