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Young learners’ attitude to environment protection

Education for the environment begins when the child experiences its first contact with nature and should continue systematically during schooltime. As the ecological consciousness is closely related to emotions and the knowledge, our main goal in this investigation was to find out the knowledge level of young learners about ecology and their attitude to environment protection. The investigation was conducted in primary school Ivana Brlić Mažuranić in Koška on a sample of 72 young learners of the first, the second, the third and the fourth grade. An anonymous questionnaire consisted of 12 questions. The results showed that 94% of pupils of the first grade know about possibilities of preservation the environment, 82% of pupils of the first and the second grade believe that it is correct to sort the garbage, all pupils from the third grade are ready to act ecologically, 88% of pupils of the third and the fourth grade are familiar with the ways of nature and environment protection from wastewater and air pollution, the fourth grade pupils can list more protected plants and animals than the third grade pupils, girls were 2% better in questionnaire than boys, the fourth grade pupils offered more qualitative answers to the question what environment protection is than other investigated pupils. It can be concluded that our investigation has shown a high level of environmental awareness which was shown by pupils of lower school grades in primary school Ivana Brlić Mažuranić in Koška. We can emphasize that developing of the ecological consciousness is present among young learners in a primary school mostly due to teachers who hardly and devotedly work on a proper education for the environment.

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