2000 Volume 22 Issue 4 Pages 55-63
A lesson plan in "General Home Economics" in the upper secondary school level was developed and practiced with the intention to stimulate students' interest in dwelling with the environment and foster their ability and willingness to take part in the process of decision making and implementation to initiate change. In this report, the evaluation of the lesson plan was made by means of analyzing students' answering sheets and writings. The observable effects were as follows: 1. Ninety-seven percent of the students replied that the study was interesting, and the plan were evaluated with high acceptability. 2. The students seemed to learn most intensively while planning, drawing and making models of school rooms and public facilities such as stations, parks and shopping centers. 3. By taking part in actual lessons based on the lesson plan, the students' positive attitude toward studying dwelling environment issues and what they could do about them increased. These results lead to the conclusion that the theme, topics and ways of learning of this lesson plan were affirmatively accepted by students and the certain effectiveness of the lesson plan for the purpose of the study became evident.
