LESSON II

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
A. The Goal of Environmental Education

- To mold an environmentally literate and

responsible citizenry who will ensure the protection
and the improvement of the environment and bring
about sustainability, social equity, and economic
efficiency in the use of the country’s natural
resources.
B. Definition of Environmental Education

Environmental Education is contextualizing

environmental issues within the physical, biological,
social, economic, historical, and cultural imperatives
of the Philippines.

- A process of teaching, learning and helping people

to acquire understanding, skills and values that
make them active and informed citizens for the
development and maintenance of an ecological,
sustainable and socially just society.
C. Environmental Education Objetives

The specific objectives of environmental education

can be attained in terms of the learners’ awareness,
knowledge, attitudes, skills and participation in the
resolution of environmental problems, issues and
concerns.

The learners must consider the environment in its

totality – natural and built, technological, social,
economic, political, cultural, historical, moral and
aesthetic.
Environmental education must be:
1. Action-oriented. It should involve finding solutions to real
environmental problems and issues
2. Experiential. It should use a variety of approaches and
environments.
3. Future-oriented. It must be concerned with the present and future
generations.
4. Globally oriented. It must consider the whole earth as one
ecosystem.
5. Holistic. It must deal with the natural and man made aspects of the
environment.
6. Interdisciplinary. It must relate to all disciplines.
7. Issue-oriented. It must deal with local, regional, national and global
perspectives.
D. Environmental Problems, Issues and Concerns in
the Community

PROBLEMS / ISSUES SOLUTIONS

D. Environmental Problems, Issues and Concerns in
the Community

Environmental problems in developed and developing

countries worldwide are among the most important
concerns facing people and their governments. These
problems include population growth, poverty,
deforestation, water pollution, air pollution, soil
pollution, waste disposal and loss of species.
E. Classifi cation and
Sources of Pollution

Pollution is defi ned as the alterat ion of

our surroundings, wholly or largely as a
product of man’s act ions, t hrough direct
or indirect eff ects that change ever y
patt ern of chemical and physical
constituents or organisms.
AIR POLLUTION

Air Pollution is the physical and

chemical alteration of the
properties of air which renders
the air harmful to human health,
vegetation and animals.
MAJOR TYPES OF AIR
POLLUTION

1. Outdoor Pollution – is a ty pe of
pollution derived f rom the mixture or
c ollec tion of additional loads of chemicals
produc ed by natural events and human
activ ities which react with the natural
c omponents of the atmosphere the rby
produc ing harmf ul eff e cts on liv ing sy stems.
The following are the major sources of outdoor
pollution:

• Burning of fossil fuels for power consumption

• Photochemical and industrial smog
• Volcanic eruption that emits sulfur dioxide and suspended
particulates
• Forest fire, “Kaingin,” the St. Elmo’s fire, and lightning
• Evaporation of volatile organic compounds from decaying
organic matters
• Natural radioactive 222-gas from uranium deposits.
Chemical substances from varieties of
sources contribute to air pollution. These
are nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and
organic compounds that can evaporate and
enter the atmosphere.