Essay On Environmental Awareness

Environmental Awareness is a part of environmental education where an individual becomes knowledgeable, recognising the values, developing the skills to protect, appreciate, care and respect as well as how to assist in conserving the surroundings for future generation (Karatas, 2013). However, the underlying issues in our society are related to different strands of environment education. Some of the issues are uncontrollable destruction of our forest, littering and dumping of garbage in the rivers and seas. As a Social Studies teacher, students should be educated about environmental sensitivity and preservation. There are strategies that can be used to encourage environmental sensitivity and preservation which entails allowing the students

A. G. 2015). Students can be encouraged to use their five senses to determine the different physical features of the environment. It helps to provide positive outdoor experiences because children learn best through direct or concrete experiences, therefore they need to be immersed in an outdoor environment to learn about it (Vault.sierraclub.org, 2015). Teachers can also cooperate with parents to encourage nature field trip events. Students can be provided with first-hand experiences of different environment throughout the country. There must be accommodation for the students that comes from a low socioeconomic background by providing free transportation when a field trip is planned. Students can also be engaged in visually to observe videos relating to environmental awareness of local and international places to become aware of the other physical features that cannot be facilitated by the school bodies such as any landform, body of water, climate, flora and fauna, vegetation and erosion of the soil that is part of a particular region or place on the earth (Kaur,