Development of Environmental Education Camping Activity Model on Forest Resource Conservation and Restoration for Youths in Kalasin Province, Thailand

The development of environmental education activities for youths is essential in that it helps promote the learning of the nature and environment surrounding them, generate fun and exciting learning, and create awareness of natural resource and environmental conservations. The activities also helps educate the youths and encourage them to participate in forest resource conservation and restoration. This research thus aimed to create the environmental education camping activity model for forest resource conservation and restoration. The sample group included 30 volunteering youths from Kalasin Province, Thailand. The research tools were an educational activity manual, an environmental knowledge questionnaire, an environmental awareness questionnaire, and a forest resource conservation and restoration questionnaire. Mean and standard deviation were implemented for data analysis. The hypotheses were tested using One-way MANCOVA and One-way ANCOVA It was found that 1) the designed environmental education camping activity model met the expected effective value with the effective value of 87.54/85.22, 2) the environmental knowledge, environmental awareness and willingness to participate in forest resource conservation and restoration of the youths had significantly increased after participating in the environmental education camp with the significance level of .05, and 3) the youths with different age groups had different environmental knowledge, environmental awareness, and willingness to participate in forest resource conservation and restoration. In conclusion, the environmental education camping activity model that was developed for the youths in Kalasin Province effectively helps improve the youths’ environmental knowledge, environmental awareness, and willingness to participate in forest resource conservation and restoration. Therefore, related organizations should use this designed model for environmental education camps to develop the environmental knowledge and environmental awareness for youths.