This study started as an effort to solve the serious environmental program that the Korean
government and internationally focused on. For the purpose of the study, a green based growth
education program was composed that young children could participate in. With this program, the
study participants could form attitudes, behavior, and knowledge of environmental preservation. To
see the effectiveness of the green growth educational program, the study set up a control and an
experimental group. The program was composed with four major content ‘ecosystem’, ‘energy’,
‘resource’, and ‘green citizenship’. The study planned 20 sessions including fairy tales, storytelling,
art, game, and science activities. The study’s participants were a total of 42 five-year-old children.
The result of the research showed that the experimental group’s environmental preservation
knowledge, attitude, and behavior score was significantly higher than the control group. The green
growth educational program had a positive effect on young children’s knowledge, attitude, and
behavior of environmental preservation. This study included the realities of the difficulties applying
green growth education in kindergarten, the result provided practical information regarding the green
growth educational program to kindergarten teachers.