ISSN 2348-3156 (Print) International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research ISSN 2348-3164 (online) Vol. 11, Issue 2, pp: (165-170), Month: April - June 2023, Available at: www.researchpublish.com Page | 165 Research Publish Journals Level of Environmental Awareness and Practices among Junior High School Students in University of San Carlos – South Campus Jeffrey Gapol 1 , Abaigail Lawas 2 1,2 Junior High School Teacher, University of San Carlos – South Campus DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7913354 Published Date: 09-May-2023 Abstract: This study explored the relationship between environmental awareness and practices. It sought to determine the level of environmental awareness and the extent of environmental practices and examine the correlation of the environmental awareness and environmental practices of the Junior High School students. This utilized correlational descriptive research and identified simple random sampling using Likert Scale survey- questionnaire and nonparametric correlation grouped with four environmental themes. This study found a high and good level of environmental awareness and practices in Stewardship and Finiteness of Resources. It also revealed contradicting levels of environmental awareness and practices in Change where it had a ‘high’ and ‘poor’ interpretations while in Materials Cycle had fairly aware and good interpretations. The study expressed an impressive overall high and good levels of interpretations yet displayed a weak correlation between environmental awareness and practices using the Spearman’s rho coefficient. It suggested creating programs that increase environmental awareness and practices. Keywords: environmental awareness, environmental practices, connectedness, ecological sensitivity, climate-disaster related risks. 1. INTRODUCTION The interaction of human beings to its environment shows an ideal state of connectedness throughout history. Environment becomes the creative setting in building cultures that includes, but does not limit to, behaviors, beliefs, practices and rituals, for which shapes the humans today (Lagala, et. al, 2016). This environment intertwines with all ecological aspects of the earth: floras and faunas and its resources, important to the development of human society (Pant, et. al, 2020). Moreover, this environment where humans link each other to its ecosystem makes sure that life is sustained and flourishing (Ashaolu, et. al, 2020). This idea is supported by a study of Seymour in 2016 where he discussed how strongly evident the relationship of humans are to nature, especially loving and learning those natural elements of the world, reflecting it to real-life and ensuring the improvement of human health even on constant societal and environmental evolution. Over the past years, human society has seen a dramatic change to its economic, social and cultural aspects (Asian Development Bank, 2014) brought about by the development of science and technology and the change of human behaviors (Pitzen, 2019) that affects the balance of environment and its ecosystem (Rogayan and Nebrida, 2019). These environmental crises are proved as a result of its land, water, air and forestry deterioration from human activities (Anand, 2013). As reported by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2016, the world’s carbon emissions will escalate, affecting the economic productivity of every country’s natural resources: a pivotal factor to one’s growth and development. With this global concern about the environment, this has placed human behaviors in question, especially that the population is continually increasing so is its consumption (Jena and Behera, 2017). This lack of awareness drives the alteration of the