Abstract:

The human being, while carrying out activities such as housing, food, energy production, is taking advantage of technology, achieving a fast resource consumption.  The solution of environmental problems arising from resource consumption depends on a society that is aware of sustainable life. Education has an important place in this awareness. In this study, high school 7th class Science course is aimed at exploring the impact of the use of the ecological footprint concept for sustainability in the Human and Environment Unit on students’ attitudes towards the environment and consumer preferences. The study’s work group is 7 of the two schools in the region of Ankara in terms of socio-economic levels, school capacity and physical conditions. There are a total of 80 students in the classroom. The study is designed as an experimental research model based on the experiment-control group, which is based on the pre-test-final test applications. The application was carried out in a total of 16 lessons hours for four weeks. For data collection, the survey was implemented on the scale of environmental attitude and consumption preferences developed by researchers as a pre-test and final test. In the analysis of the data obtained from the attitude scale, the ANOVA test; in the analysis of the surveys, percentage-frequency tables were created based on the preferences of students. The results of data analysis found significant differences in the benefit of the experiment group for the attitude towards the environment. The results of the survey applied to consumption preferences were found that there were changes in the experiment group before and after work, but there were no changes in the control group.

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