Sustainable development training and outcomes (poster only session)

Environmental education is a type of education that aims to increase individuals' environmental awareness, raise awareness on sustainability issues and use natural resources more effectively. Providing environmental education to students provides many advantages and this education has both short-term and long-term outcomes. Some of these outcomes can be listed as sustainable life skills, social responsibility, innovation and solution orientation.

 

In the short term, effects such as students' awareness, application to daily life, social participation, and basic environmental knowledge can be seen. In the long term; Students are expected to see effects such as sustainable living habits, leadership, innovation, environmentally friendly professions, and ecosystem protection.

 

Finally, regarding climate change education in schools, which is this year's theme, it can be used to raise awareness among students about climate change awareness, sustainable energy use, environmental footprint awareness, climate justice, and sustainable use of natural resources. These connections between environmental education and global warming enable individuals to act more consciously, responsibly and effectively against environmental problems. This can contribute to society's greater resilience against major environmental threats such as global warming and climate change.

 

Sustainable development training will be provided within the scope of science course. The training consists of various sub-headings. The duration of the training is determined as 20 lesson hours. Since the science course has 4 lesson hours each week, the training will be completed in a total of 5 weeks. As for the training implementation calendar, the practices will start after the semester break. The educational contents will be created by the researcher by scanning different sources and considering the science curriculum. The age level and readiness levels of the students will also be considered.

 

Teaching activities will be alternated individually or as a group according to the characteristics of the activities. During the creation of the groups, different applications designed by the researcher will be organized in order to enable students to interact with different people in the class. A student-centered approach will be adopted in the teaching process.

 

The aim of the training to be given is to raise awareness about the economical use of water resources, household solid waste materials, household liquid waste materials, recycling and reuse. In addition, local and global environmental problems, endangered living creatures, endangered species, unconscious hunting and conservation of species are among the targets. Finally, students are expected to be informed about energy resources and energy consumption. In line with these goals, it is expected that the cooperative learning of the students will develop in a positive way.