Eco Learning Camp, Wisata Pendidikan

This paper aims to describe the Eco Learning Camp endeavors in building individual awareness to care for the environment through environmental-based value education. Efforts to build awareness about the environment must be carried out, considering the quality of environment conditions significantly decreased.  Extreme temperature changes and global warming are the real conditions we felt these days. Many ways can be done to instill this awareness. One of them is to educate people with value education, which is taken by the Eco Learning Camp managed by Yayasan Sahabat Lingkungan Hidup (The Friends of the Environment Foundation). Through a descriptive qualitative method with a case study approach, data collection is done through interviews with informants, observation and literature review. The results showed, through a series of designed activities, Eco Camp delivered knowledge about the environment in the form of practical informal education so that participants directly felt what the activities were like. Activities carried out include ecological lifestyle, group games, building motivation, farming, and other activities, delivered in a fun way with a lead of a guide. The conclusions are educational tourism in Eco Camp provides cognitive, affective and psychomotor impacts on participants, especially children who attend education. Cultivating ecological life habits, internalized in participants are motivated to carry out activities related to ecological lifestyles, such as not littering or bringing their self drinking water bottle to school rather than carrying mineral bottled drinking water.