The purposes of this study is to reveal the environmental consciousness of children and students in elementary and junior high schools after implementation of the Environmental Education Act in Taiwan (2011). We carried out questionnaire surveys and interviews at nine elementary schools and five junior high schools in Miaoli County, and analyzed the children’s environmental consciousness utilizing cross-tabulation and quantification theory.

  The results are follows: (1) The more children and students are interested in some environmental problems, the more they understand them. (2) At the elementary school level, the teachers’ attitudes to environmental education and their estimation of its meaning affect the students’ environmental consciousness. (3) We also found that the accumulation of learning experience in environmental education makes students more interested in environmental issues and more active to participate in related activities. (4) Children’s and students’ broad understanding of environmental problems affects their pro-environmental behavior.

  Current marine education in elementary and secondary education rarely deal with sea-level change in the quaternary period and the submarine topography formed due to this process. Therefore, we developed and implemented an educational marine program incorporating these elements. The contents of the program are as follows:

  ・Interaction with organisms inhabiting the coast,

  ・Submarine topography and sea-level change in the quaternary period,

  ・Uniqueness of fishing performed by female divers (in Japanese “ama”) and submarine topography,

  ・Fishing offshore from Shima and the reasons for the abundant fishing resources in the area.

  The degree of understanding and interest shown by the children has been generally good.