Scope of Environment Education

The scope of environment education is also called the content or subject matter of environment education.There are different aspects and components in the environment. Among them, the biological, physical, social and cultural aspects are important.

The scope of environmental education can be divided into biological, physical and sociological aspects.They are described below:

1. Biological aspect: Biological aspects is one of the most important aspects of environmental education. Human being, animals, birds, insects, microorganism, plants are some of the examples of biological aspects.
2. Physical aspect: It can be further divided into natural aspects and human- made aspects. Air, water, land, climate etc are included in natural physical aspects. Likewise, Human made physical aspects cover all human made things such as roads, buildings, bridges, houses etc.
3. Socio- cultural aspect: Socio- cultural aspects are man made social practices, rules and laws, and other religious places etc. Human beings have created them with their effort.

Thus, the environmental education is related with science, economics, geography, technology, population and health education, etc. It helps to develop integrated knowledge and feeling of co- operation in the students. As a result environment education becomes practical and contextual. Environment education can be implemented through formal and non-formal educational means. The basic concepts of ecology, natural resources, population environmental health etc are some of the subject matters in this subject. The environment education helps students to develop integrated knowledge and attitude which will be more effective to the society.