Teaching of Environmental Education on Water Resource Management Using Team Work- Based Learning (TWBL)

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to develop an effective and efficient environmental education lesson plan on water resource management using Team Work-Based Learning (TWBL), study and compare knowledge, attitude, and environmental ethics before and after the learning, and examine students of different genders. The study sample comprised 27 students in Primary 4/4 at Anubanmuangatsamat School, Roi Et Province, selected by simple random sampling. The research instruments include an environmental education lesson plan on water resource management using TWBL, a knowledge test, an attitude test, and an environmental ethics test. The statistical methods used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, content validity, reliability, index of discrimination, difficulty, and Paired t-test, F-test (One-Way MANOVA). The research showed that 1) The environmental education lesson plan was an effectiveness score of 81.23/86.91. The effectiveness index (E.I.) was 0.5283. This indicates that students gained more knowledge, leading to an improvement in their academic progress after the learning 52.83%. 2) After the learning, students' average scores on knowledge, attitudes, and environmental ethics were higher than before the learning, statistically significant (p > .05). 3) There was no difference between the scores of knowledge, attitude, and environmental ethics of students with different genders.