Overview:
Learn about the benefits of a plant-based diet for environmental and social justice. Then, share this information with your peers by creating a presentation tailored to your audience and sharing it with them. You can present a series of presentations to one audience or the same presentation to multiple groups, depending on whether you would rather dig into the research on one topic or improve your confidence with public speaking.
Learning objectives:
- Improve understanding of animal agriculture’s effects on climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.
- Improve reading comprehension skills for scientific papers and learn to clearly communicate findings with a non-scientific audience.
- Develop presentation design skills, including slide design, storytelling, audience tailoring, etc.
- Gain effective communication skills that enable you to critically engage with this topic with varying audiences including your peers and the public, such as active listening and asking critical questions.
- Learn about skills and competencies required in research and communications professions.
Stages:
Investigation
- Research and identify preferred audiences for presentations.
- Survey audience to understand their current knowledge around the connection between food and the environment.
Preparation and Planning
- Research the connection between food and environment independently and with the support of Switch4Good materials and team.
- Reflect on survey results to determine the focus and depth of the presentation.
- Create visual aid(s) for the presentation(s) and craft talking points.
- Practice the presentation(s). Don’t memorize word for word, but instead, understand your points well enough to clearly communicate them and keep the conversation dynamic.
- Organize the presentation event(s).
Action/Demonstration
- Present!
Deliverables:
- Survey distributed to audience asking about knowledge of food systems, climate change, and their connectionVisual aids and talking points/script for the presentation.
- Documentation of the presentation (photos, videos, invitations, etc.).
