Abstract
The Purpose of this report is to research the consciousness of high school students on environmental issues and discuss how to teach it in home economics education in order to educate students to create their own lifestyle suitable to environmental issues. In September 1998, questionnaires on environmental issues were sent out to 934 senior high school students in Kagoshima Prefecture, and 666 answers were obtained.
From the results of this investigation, we have the following conclusions:
1. Students have tendencies to think that they must restrict their behavior to maintain a good environment, so we need them to develop ways of purposeful thinking for creating their lifestyle.
2. Students who live considering about the environment can be recognized as those who have a high consciousnesses which is concerned with environmental problems. They are considered as those who have a higher awarenesses of the situation of the domestic environment, and they are more likely motivated to practice creating of their lifestyle so as to have good effects on the environment than those who only have a rich knowledge of environmental problems
