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Outreach Materials

Understanding how climate change works and its consequences is essential to initiating individual behavioral change. National parks provide a unique opportunity to educate the public in a setting free from the distractions of daily life. By utilizing existing materials and developing park specific materials, your park can play an important role in educating the public about climate change. In this section, you will find links to interpretive materials that will help you communicate the issue of climate change, its impacts, and what visitors can do in their own lives to make a difference.

Interactive Tools

EPA's Global Warming Wheelcard and Classroom Activity Kit includes a hand-held wheel card and other resources to help estimate household greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and encourage thinking about ways to reduce personal, family, school, and community contributions to climate change.
EPA's Climate Change Calculator provides an estimate of GHG emissions resulting from household energy use, transportation and waste disposal, and it gives you information you can use to identify ways to reduce your personal greenhouse gases.
EPA's Climate Climate Change Education Calculator Kit (Climate CHECK) is a user-friendly Microsoft Excel-based kit that teaches high school students about the science, drivers, and impacts of climate change and provides them with the knowledge, tools, and resources to increase climate-change awareness and GHG mitigation at their school.
Climate Change, Wildlife, and Wildlands Toolkit developed by EPA, NPS, and FWS provides information on climate change and its potential imacts on wildlife, national parks, and wildlife refuges. It includes:

Introductory Materials

Introduction (220KB PDF) - Overview of the toolkit and its contents.

Getting Started (785KB PDF) - Tips for using major components of the tookit.

Brochures

Climate Change and Cold Water Fish (1001KB PDF) - Impacts of climate change on cold water fish.

Climate Change and Birds (794KB PDF) - Impacts of climate change on birds.

Climate Change and Public Lands (1214KB PDF) - Impacts of climate change on public lands.

Case Studies, Trail Talks, and Flash Cards

Western Mountains and Plains
Covering Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks, the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges, and the plains states.

Case study (711KB PDF)

Trail talk (489KB PDF)

Flash card (701KB PDF)

Great Lakes and Upper Midwest
Covering Isle Royale and Voyageurs National Parks, and the entire Great Lakes region.

Case study (2.3MB PDF)

Trail talk (519KB PDF)

Flash card (234KB PDF)

Chesapeake Bay and Assateague Island
Covering Chesapeake Bay and the mid-Atlantic coastal region.

Case study (724KB PDF)

Trail talk (528KB PDF)

Flash card (696KB PDF)

Everglades and South Florida
Covering Everglades National Park, Florida Bay, the Florida Keys, and the rest of south Florida.

Case study (1.5MB PDF)

Trail talk (510KB PDF)

Flash card (155KB PDF)

Bibliography

Sources used in preparing the case studies (3MB PDF)

Interactive Activities

Animals (258KB PDF)

Pictures for coloring, with explanatory text.

Landscapes (363KB PDF)

Pictures for coloring, with explanatory text.

Science Skit (541KB PDF)

Classroom skit on global warming.

Science Experiments (1.75MB PDF)

Classroom experiments.

Word Games (319KB PDF)

Games using climate change terms.

Videos

Climate Change and our Public Lands (46.7MB WMV)

Giveaways

CFP Fan with 10 Things You Can Do (high-resolution artwork in PDF and EPS format that can be given to a vendor for production)
CFP pen logo (high-resolution artwork in PDF and EPS format that can be given to a vendor for production)
- CFP_pen_art.pdf
- CFP_pen_art.eps
CFP notepad (high-resolution artwork in PDF format that can be given to a vendor for production)
- CFPnotepad_art.pdf
CFP sticker (high-resolution artwork in PDF and EPS format that can be given to a vendor for production)
- CFP_sticker_art.pdf
- CFP_sticker_art.eps

Games

Interactive game, based on the popular TV show Jeopardy, about climate change impacts in national parks

Geopardy (2.4MB ZIP)

Interactive game, based on the popular TV show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, about climate change impacts in national parks

Who Wants to Reduce a Million Tons? (391KB ZIP)

Posters

CFP Poster (480KB PDF)
Green Cleaning: Environmental Sense (663KB PDF)
Park Lighting: Making the Switch (666KB PDF)
HVAC Systems: Smart Comfort (240KB PDF)
Landscaping: Planting Green Ideas (1.5MB PDF)

Publications

Sustainability News is an NPS publication that highlights sustainabiltiy initiatives throught the Service. It is published semiannually, once in the spring, and once in the fall/winter.
GREEN Voice The latest issue of GREEN Voice features an article by Regional Director Jon Jarvis titled "Global Climate Change and the Pacific West Region." New responsibilites for parks resulting from climate change, along with climate change effects already occurring in PWR parks.
Flyer: Climate Change and Mountain Streams (1.2MB PDF)
Flyer: Climate Change and Melting Glaciers (3.1MB PDF)
Flyer: What Does the Climate Change Hold for the Future of Great Lakes National Parks? (150KB PDF)
Brochure: Climate Change in the National Parks (1.5MB PDF)