Along with the implementation of the Environmental Education Act in 2011, the development of environmental education enters a new stage in Taiwan. There is a need to encourage the significant life experience of environmental action for high school students, and an environmental competition is designed to fulfill this purpose by the current project. Three objectives are (a) to collect national and international environmental education related competitions, (b) to develop the procedures and rules of the competition for high school students, and (c) to construct a programme for the competition. A competition model is proposed. The aim is to equip the future citizens with environmental awareness, environmental knowledge, environmental skills, environmental attitude and environmental action experience and to provide a platform for young students to interact with each other. It is a team-based competition and the national final will be a four-day outdoor event. There will be a core issue for each year. All participants will have to study the reference materials and complete a report realted to the core issue. The test assignments should be cross-discipline and cross-scale to exhibit the complexity of the environmental issues. The proposed competition model is rather complex, hence, the capacity of environmental literacy and of coordination of the organizing committee is crucial. The alternatives for such an event are also suggested: (a) to make the national final a more social event than an intensive competition and (b) to sponsor a well-established competition and encourage high-quality project reports which study various environmental issues.

Environmental education;competition;environmental act experience;outdoor investigation;high school