Abstract:

The results of the studies towards environment education states that students could not develop positive attitudes towards environment in our country. Based upon this, it can be said that students will grow as individuals who have negative attitudes against environment and who are insensitive about environment problems. It is thought that, this case will cause negative results in terms of environment and environment education. Within the scope of environment education moduler curriculum developed in this study, it is aimed to evaluate in what level that students' attitudes towards environment. In this study, special case methodology is used. Sample of the study is composed of 23 students chosen via purposeful sampling way (12 male – 11 female) who are studying in 7B branch of a central secondary school in Gumushane city. Data are collected thorough “Environment Education Attitude Scale (EAS)” and Researcher's Daily Notes (RDN)” which are developed by the researchers. In order to define whether the difference between pre and post tests are statistically meaningful or not, t-test is used which is dependent on parametric tests. Researcher's daily notes are subjected to qualitative analysis. Furthermore, in order to reveal the distribution of codes gathered through daily notes, according to the weeks in which they are written down, chart is prepared and frequencies are made. From the data gathered, it is defined that statistically meaningful difference is found on behalf of post test between pre and post test points.To prevent environment problems and growing environment-educated individuals, it is suggested to put the activities developed into practice effectively

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