Environmental education can effectively raise people's awareness of environmental protection and encourage appropriate behaviors. This study explored the effect of narrative-based environmental education on children's environmental awareness. To this end, we recruited first- and second-grade students from two elementary schools to participate in an experiment in which differences between the group receiving narrative-based environmental video education and the control group were compared. It was found that narrative-based environmental education can effectively promote children's environmental awareness, which was mainly reflected in their environmental knowledge and environmental attitudes, however, not significant in their pro-environmental behavior intention. These findings support the implementation of environmental education for students in lower grades in the future.
Keywords: environmental attitudes; environmental awareness; environmental education; narrative.