Recent environmental events have produced an awareness of the problems caused by developing societies. Because of this, many feel that there is an increasing need to include environmental aspects in school lessons on a regular basis. This pamphlet focuses on an in-service program developed as a result of the efforts of a conference arranged in 1984 by the Danish Ministry of Education in cooperation with the Ministry of the Environment. The purposes of the conference were to draw attention to the need to give people a thorough knowledge of environmental issues; to draw attention to the social significance of the appreciation of nature, and to contribute to the debate related to the teaching of environmental education in elementary and junior high schools. Discussed are: (1) the central concerns of environmental education; (2) the purpose of an inservice program; (3) form and content of the inservice course; (4) study materials; (5) organizational structure; and (6) timetable. (CW)