A Suggested unit in chemistry based on principals of green industry and its life applications to develop environmental knowledges, sustainable thinking and attitude towards green economy for secondary stage students

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Curriculum and teaching methods department Faculty of Education Ain Shams University

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The current research aimed to build a suggested unit in chemistry Based on principals of green industry and its life applications in developing environmental knowledges, sustainable thinking and attitude towards green economy for secondary stage students. To achieve this goal, the researcher prepared a Chemistry unit, Research tools have also been built, which are a test of environmental knowledge, scale of sustainable thinking and scale of attitude towards green economy.
To verify the effectiveness of this unit, a group of 32students from 2nd  secondary stage was selected and suggested unit was taught for them. Research tools were applied before and after studying unit. The result of research showed that there is a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of students of experimental group in pre and post applications of research tools in favor of the post applications. This indicates the effectiveness of Chemistry unit prepared according to principals of green industry and their life applications in developing environmental knowledges, sustainable thinking skills and attitude towards green economy among 2nd secondary stage students.According to these results, the research recommended to design different units according to principals of green industry, and include sustainable thinking skills, and green economy in Science education.

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