기후변화 교육 지원을 위한 프로그램 개발 - 초등학교 3∼6학년을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study purposed to design an education program on climate change based on data obtained from the Korea Meteorological Administration. This program was intended to support elementary school education and the study also aimed to verify its effectiveness. Hence, 15-hour interventions were created for two grade groups of elementary school: three and four and five and six. Further, books were produced for the students and teachers for each grade group. The program comprised four stages: phenomenon, cause, effect, and response. The effectiveness of the developed program was corroborated through the Results of Awareness and Attitude Test on Climate Change, Student Satisfaction Results for Climate Change Response Education, and Program Operation Report. This verification process revealed several outcomes. First, the developed support elementary school program on climate change altered and enhanced the perceptions and attitudes of all categories of students. Second, most students responded very satisfactorily to the program. Third, the scrutiny of reports by the teachers who delivered the school education support program on climate change affirmed that the teachers expanded their interest and perspectives on climate change and related education. The study results allow the recommendation to conduct climate change education in schools, including the understanding of the phenomenon, its causes, and its effects based on varied data, and to establish and implement response strategies. Second, a long-term systematic program should be developed and delivered so that climate change education can be continuously and substantively implemented in school curricula as well as in daily life.