The Role of Web Quest in the Teaching of Geography in Developing Awareness of the First Secondary Class Female Students in Some Global Environmental Problems and Their Attitudes Towards Them

Abstract

The study aimed at investigating the effect of Web Quest strategy in geography teaching to develop the awareness of first secondary class female students about some global environmental problems and their attitudes towards it. Quasi-experimental approach was applied on one experimental group using pretest- posttest technique. The sample consisted of (30) female students of ElOrman secondary school for females in Elagouza, Giza governorate. Both the global environmental problems awareness and the attitude towards the strategy scales were applied before studying using the Web Quest strategy; the strategy was applied on the research group, then both scales were applied again. “T” test was used to examine both strategy hypotheses, where the results revealed that there is a statistically significant difference at 0.01 between the average scores of the students before and after Web Quest strategy application in favor of the posttest application for both the global environmental problems awareness and the attitude towards the strategy scales