The Importance of Early Education About Climate Change for Students of Primary School
Keywords:
Early Education, Climate Change, Save the Earth, Go Green, StudentsAbstract
The importance of early education about climate change at the lowest educational level (elementary school students) needs to be instilled. The goal is for students to be able to change attitudes, habits, and actions in facing recent climate change. The methods used in this community service activity include socialization, interviews, and practicing planting vegetables as family food security. Questionnaires were filled out before and after the socialization by the Unilak Community Service Team. The results of the questionnaire calculation before the socialization showed that the students' understanding, attitudes, and self-preparation towards climate change were quite low, with 75% not knowing and 25% already knowing. After the socialization, interviews, and vegetable planting practice, there was an increase in students' knowledge and education about climate change by 42%, with 33% of students still not understanding and 67% already understanding. This shows that students paid attention to and understood the explanations given by the Unilak Community Service Team well after the socialization was conducted. Generally, students did not know the definition of climate change, its causes, and mechanisms. Students felt the recent erratic weather with increased temperatures and felt hot. However, students did not know that changes in the environment and climate had occurred. The students of SD Negeri 019 Pandau Jaya also did not know how students should act, behave, change habits to "go green" and "save the earth," and the impacts that would occur. Almost all students said they had not received information about climate change from school teachers, newspapers, friends, and online media. The hope for the future after the socialization is that students can socialize the knowledge to friends, family, and neighbors about climate change so that they can change attitudes, actions, and daily habits at least in the school and home environment. Students can start by living healthily, saving water and electricity, sorting waste, exercising, enjoying planting, and starting by planting crops for food security in the surrounding environment.
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