Grewal, DaljeetKaur2017-02-142017-02-142011http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810000804The investigation entitled‘Relationship of Locale and Intelligence with Environmental Awareness among School Children’ aimed to assess the level of Environmental Awareness and Intelligence among rural and urban school children. The study was based on a sample of 200 (100 boys and 100 girls) school children in the age range of 14-16 years. The sample was randomly drawn from four Government High and Senior Secondary Schools selected purposively from rural as well as urban areas of Ludhiana district.Environment Attitude Scale developed by Tajwas used to assess the level of environmental awareness among school children. Standard Progressive Matrices Scale developed by Raven was used to assess the intelligence level of the respondents. Results revealed anon-significant gender differences between male and female respondents with regard to environmental awareness. Females were found to have high mean scores as compared to males.However, significant locale differences were observed between environmental awareness andthe locale of the respondents.A significant difference was found between Intelligence and locale of the respondents while a non significant difference was found in the level of intelligence with gender of the respondents.Intelligence was found to be significantly affecting the health & hygiene, wild life, forests, polluters, population explosion, environmental concerns and total environmental awareness of the school children. A non-significant association was found between environmental awareness and gender of the respondents. The locale of the respondents was significantly associated with the different dimensions of environmental awareness like health & hygiene, forests, population explosion,environmental concerns and overall environmental awareness whereas non-significantly associated with wild life, and polluters. A significant association was found between Intelligence and locale of the respondents while it was nonsignificantly associated with gender of the respondents. Females were found to have high level of environmental awareness as compared to males.ensowing, intercropping, wheats, tillage equipment, seed drilling, crops, mustard, fertilizers, land resources, chickpeasThesis