A suggested unit in Geography based on the National Strategy for Climate Change 2050 to develop awareness of climate changes among first year secondary school students

The current research aims to verify the effectiveness of a suggested unit in Geography based on the National Climate Change Strategy 2050, to develop awareness of climate changes among first year secondary school students for the academic year 2021/2022 in the second semester. The research materials were in a list of dimensions of awareness of climate changes, the proposed unit, and the teacher’s guide, and the measurement tool was the scale of awareness of climate changes with its three aspects (knowledge - attitude - behavior). The sample of the research consisted of (32) female students from the first year of general secondary school at Al-Shaheed Ahmed Muhammad Kamel Bayoumi Secondary School for Girls, Nasser educational administration, Beni Suef Governorate. This sample was as used as a single experimental group, and the research tools were pre-administered to it, then the proposed unit was taught to it, then the research tools were post administered to it. The results of the research were that there is a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the students of the research group in the scale of awareness of climate changes as a whole in the two applications, the pre and post applications in favor of the post application at the level (0.01), which indicates the effectiveness of teaching the proposed unit in developing awareness of climatic changes among female first year secondary school students. Accordingly, the research presented a set of recommendations and proposals based on the results.