the impact of environmental education on the environmental behavior of elementary school students (case study: students in tehran)

The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of environmental education on environmental behavior of students in elementary schools. the study was conducted in tehran. it is a cross-sectional study and to achieve the aim of the study a questionnaire consisting of 15 questions was used. this is based on knowledge, attitudes and environmental behavior of students available to the study and was presented to two groups of students; ordinary and green schools (8 schools) which constitute about 100 students from each school. after checking the students' responses, the results of the analysis were analyzed using spss software. the helpful results obtained from comparison test to two independent groups (t) and test comparing several independent groups (f). the result revealed that between the two groups of green school students and ordinary ones, there is no significant difference (p> .05). this means that environmental education on behavior modified schools had little impact.