Assessment of Information of Environmental and Climate Changes of High School Students in Tabriz City and the Effect of Education on their Knowledge

Increasing the information of children and adolescents were occurred in a variety of ways, such as family, mass media, and communication with friends, and classroom instruction. Classroom instruction and other educational programs conducted in educational and non-educational settings are one of the most important ways to improve understanding of the concepts of climate change and environmental issues. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to educate and increase the awareness of adolescents about the concepts and issues of climate change and their knowledge of environmental programs among students.

Data were collected from 113 high school students in Tabriz by filling out a questionnaire at the academic year 2017-2018.

The results showed that students showed a difference in attitude before and after education. There was a significant difference in the significance of Arasbaran forests in the two stages before and after training. Among the four sources of catching environmental information, TV (65.4%) and Internet (50%) were the main source of information. In the pre-training phase, 31.3% of the students stated that climate change is not important. But in the post-training phase, none of the people pointed to the low importance of climate change. In the pre-training phase, 25% of people did not feel the risk of climate change, while after explaining the issue, it reached 3.8%. The comparison of the mean environmental perception in the pre and post education stage indicated that both protective measures including intent of support and enjoyment of existing resources had a significant increase.Discussion and

The factor of changing nature and human dominance of the utilization component was reduced, but only a significant decrease was observed in the altering nature factor. TV and internet were as the main information sources about environment and climate change and the related education can be touched by these options.