Home⇛International Journal of Advances in Education, Social Sciences and Innovation⇛vol. 3 no. 1 (2024)

Environmental Awareness and Sustainable Development Practices of Senior High School Students

Mary Joy Toledo | Marklyn Lingon

Discipline: environmental sciences

 

Abstract:

Exhausting all the available scientific and technological means to use our natural resources for our conveniences could drastically affect our nature. This study aimed to determine the extent of environmental awareness and the level of sustainable development practices of Senior High School students in President Diosdado Macapagal Memorial National High School. Results showed that the respondents’ extent of environmental awareness in terms of waste management, pollution, and climate change was high while their level of sustainable practices as to proper waste disposal, energy conservation, and tree-planting activities was also high. Findings revealed also that there was a significant relationship between climate change and tree planting activities, climate change and proper waste disposal, waste management and proper waste disposal, pollution and tree planting activities, and pollution and energy conservation. On the other hand, no significant relationship was found out between climate change and energy conservation, waste management and tree planting activities, waste management and energy conservation, and pollution and proper waste disposal. Thus, the use of the crafted intervention framework based on the findings of the study is recommended for the SHS students to become responsible eco-warriors for a greener and progressive environment.



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