Effect of Video Assisted Teaching on Usage of Plastics and its Impact on Environment among Adolescent in a Selected School, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/ijphrd.v11i3.746Keywords:
Effect, Plastic, Adolecents, Environmnet, Video Assisted Teaching.Abstract
Almost certainly you will see plastic. Our homes, offices, schools, hospitals, factories indeed, our entire
surroundings are dominated by products made from this material As a consequence, the production of
plastics has increased substantially over the last 60 years from around 0.5 million tonnes in 1950 to over
260 million tonnes today. The study topic was “to the assess effects on video assisted teaching on usage
of plastics and its impact on environment among Adolescent in selected school, Kanchipuram district,
Tamil Nadu. The objective of the study were to assess the pre-test knowledge on usage of plastics and its
impact on environment,to assess the effect of video assisted teaching on usage of plastic and its impact on
environment among Adolescent,to associate between pre-test, post-test knowledge regarding the usage of
plastics and its impact on environment with selected demographic variables. Quasi-experimental research
design was used for this study. The sample consist of 84 adolescents. Self-structured questionnaire was
used to assess the effects on video assisted teaching on usage of plastics and its impact on environment
among Adolescent. The data collection period was one week. The data was collected in 84 adolescents in
the age group between 13 to 16 years in a selected school, Kanchipuram district, the sample was selected by
using simple random sampling technique. The data was analysis and tabulated. The study results shows that
majority 65.4% (55) having inadequate knowledge, 33.3% (28) having moderate knowledge, only 1% (1) of
them having adequate knowledge regarding usage of plastics and its impact on environment after the video
assisted teaching the study results shows that majority 94% (79) having adequate knowledge, 6% (5) having
moderately adequate knowledge and none of them were having inadequate knowledge regarding usage of
plastics and its impact on environment.
