Implementation of Environmental Education Based Local Potential to Increase Environmental Knowledge Student

Abstract

Abstract The challenge of complexity environmental problems requires intensive efforts by environmental education. However, students’ environmental knowledge about of the surrounding local potential is low. It is necessary to integrated implementation of environmental education based local potentials to enhance students’ environmental knowledge. This research was conducted on students at Teaching and Education Faculty, Universitas Riau in August-December 2018. Implementation of environmental education based local potentials was carried out in learning with integrating contents of environmental education curriculum is the concept of ecosystems, environmental problems and environmental management based local wisdom, with data and field facts owned by Riau Province. Implementation is carried out in control and experimental classes, selected based on the homogeneity and normality values of the students’ environmental knowledge. Parameters analyzed were the learning feasibility value by observer and student’s environmental knowledge. Results showed that implementation of environmental education based local potential was very good (0.96-1.00). Implementation learning can increased students’ environmental knowledge by 0.60 (moderate), better than control class by 0.21 (low). So that implmentation of environmental education based local potential can be used as an alternative effort to improve students’ environmental knowledge.