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The purpose of this study was to develop STS teaching-learning program which focuses on real-life experiences for reasonable energy usage, and to verify how STS teaching- learning program affects the understanding knowledge concerned energy and the attitude towards saving energy. The subjects of this study were students of the 6th grade at an elementary school in Kyong-Ju. They were divided into two groups, an experimental group and a control group. The developed STS teaching-learning program had been applied to the experimental group. However, the traditional teaching-learning process had been employed to the control group for four weeks. The main results of this study are as follows :(1) The developed STS teaching-learning program consists of following subjects. ; energy resources, growing energy consumption, heat-energy transfer, energy and environment, saving energy, efficient usage of electricity and opening 'ANABADA' market. (2) In the understanding of knowledge concerned energy, there was no difference between the experimental group and control group. (3) In the attitude toward saving energy, there was a considerable significant difference between he experimental group and control group. However, there was no difference between male and female students, respectively.