Implementation of an Environmental Education Program “Global warming even in your bag?!” in a High School

Abstract

The present paper reports the implementation of an environmental education program using LCA educational software “Global warming even in your bag?!” which was developed by Hondo laboratory, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University. The program using the LCA educational software is very innovative in the sense that it can make students become aware of “life cycle” of products and feel global warming as their own problem. After implementing the program in a high school, students actually realized the importance of “life cycle thinking,” which had lacked for students before the class, and they learned that their daily behavior affects global warming. Based on experience in implementing the program, problems and future prospects regarding the use of the program in high schools are discussed. From viewpoints of the school curriculum，it is appropriate to implement this program based on life cycle thinking in the subject of geography and/or domestic science. The LCA educational software can play an important role in environmental education in high schools although it has some problems to be solved.