The validity and reliability study of ?The Children?s Environmental Attitudes Scale? and ?The New Ecological Paradigm Scale? and the analysis of the effect of the environmental education program

In this research, it is aimed, by doing the validity and realibility study of the Children?s Environmental Attitudes Scale and the New Ecological Paradigm Scale, to apply an environmental program which focuses on improving attitudes of parents and 60-72 months old children who are going on with the preschool and to determine the effects of the program to the environmental attitude levels.In the research, empirical design, pretest-posttest and control group model are used. In the application which is done to determine the realibility of the Children?s Environmental Attitudes Scale and the New Ecological Paradigm Scale, research sampling consists of 150 children and parents which are selected by the method of cluster sample. In the application of the education program, there are 52 children and 26 of them is in the experiement group and 26 of them is in the control group and also 51 parents are included in the research.According to the research results; Children?s Environmental Attitudes Scale and New Ecological Paradgm Scale are valid and reliable. After the Environmental Education Program, between the scores children who are in the experiement and control group, and parents who are in the experiement and control group, there is deep difference for the benefit of experiement group (p<0.01 and p<0.05). With these findings, some suggestions are presented to both scientific research which will be done in the future and parents and educators to help improving environmental attitudes of young children.