Abstract
<em>The research aims to determine the environmental care attitude in Senior High School 1 Kayen. The research samples were the tenth-grade students, eleventh-grade students, and third-grade students of Social Science (IPS) class at Senior High School 1 Kayen. The research used Slovin formula to obtain 192 samples from the tenth grade, eleventh grade, and twelfth grade. The study used a random sampling technique. Questionnaires were used as the data collection techniques to measure knowledge about environmental care attitudes using calculation techniques of Likert scale and percentage formula. The result shows the students in Senior High have the moderate category on environmental care attitude, with a total frequency of 89 students consisting of tenth-grade students, eleventh-grade students, and twelfth-grade students in Social Science (IPS) class with a percentage score of 46,35%. In an attempt to increase students’ environmental care, we suggest several educational agents, such as Educational supervisors, Principals, and Teachers give the students examples of good actions to the environment in daily routine.</em>
Highlights
Based on the results of the Pollution Index (PI) value, it could be concluded that the Sani river water quality status from upstream to downstream has decreased from slightly to moderate polluted conditions
Many people believe that environmental education is one of the most important factors for preventing problems (Özden, 2008)
Ethics states that "ethical issues about the environment are generally raised in the context of environmental crises that are understood as environmental crises produced by misguided values
Summary
Based on the results of the Pollution Index (PI) value, it could be concluded that the Sani river water quality status from upstream to downstream has decreased from slightly to moderate polluted conditions. Based on the results of a study by the Central Statistics Agency on 33 provinces in Indonesia in 2012, it shows that the environmental care behavior of the community is still low with a score of 0.57 from a range of 1-10 This is indicated by several human activities in the form of the use of transportation, energy, forest burning and livestock which are carried out to meet the needs of life. Schools carry out a proactive role in helping families and communities by developing a caring and respectful environment where students learn core and ethical values (Pala, 2011). Schools should play their role in forming an awareness of the environment (Mustakin, 2011). There is an effort to form the character of environmental care attitude
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