Abstract
The new National Curriculum Standard has been incorporated into primary and lower secondary school since the 2002 school year. This Standard recommends a new category of study, named the "Period for Integrated Study". Also, it recommends that "Environment" should be included in the Period for Integrated Study as one of the content areas. In 2000, the author of this paper, as a member of a research project, carried out a questionnaire survey concerning the plan for Environmental Education (EE) in the Period for Integrated Study. He further carried out surveys to clarify the trends of EE in the Period for Integrated Study in 2003 and 2005, by using quite similar questions as well as the exact same alternative responses. The following trends have been clarified by analysis. 1) Primary schools tend to put into practice : "activities to be a friend of nature", "activities on keeping/cultivating animals/plants", "voluntary activities like cleaning up and/or recycling in the community" and "learning about waste and/or recycling issues. 2) Lower secondary schools tend to put into practice : "voluntary activities like cleaning up and/or recycling in the community" and "learning about waste and/or recycling issues, 3) In comparison with primary schools, lower secondary schools tend not to put into practice : "activities to be a friend of nature" and "activities on keeping/cultivating animals/plants. It is expected that this survey will be continued.
