1. Cultivate patriotism: National defense education helps young people understand the development process and national spirit of the country by telling the history and heroic deeds of the country, enhances their love and pride for the motherland, and cultivates patriotism.

2. Enhance national security awareness: National defense education enables young people to understand the threats and challenges facing national security, help them understand the relationship between national security and personal security, and enhance national security awareness. Improve the quality and ability of national defense: National defense education enables young people to master basic military skills and knowledge through military training and military skill training, and improve the quality and ability of national defense.

3. Cultivate teamwork spirit: collective training, teamwork and other activities in national defense education, so that young people can learn to cooperate and cooperate with each other and cultivate teamwork spirit.

4. Promote physical and mental health: Physical exercise and physical training in national defense education are helpful to promote the physical and mental health of teenagers and enhance their physique.

How to make teenagers better participate in national defense education

1. Improve the curriculum system of national defense education: incorporate national defense education into the curriculum system of primary and secondary schools, and formulate corresponding curriculum standards and teaching plans to ensure the systematization and integrity of national defense education. At the same time, for students of different ages, design appropriate national defense education content to better attract and guide young people to participate.

2. Enrich the forms of national defense education: In addition to traditional classroom teaching, we can organize various forms of national defense education activities, such as military summer camps, military training, visits to military museums, etc., so that young people can experience and learn national defense knowledge in practice. In addition, modern technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality can be used to provide teenagers with a more vivid and three-dimensional national defense education experience.

3. Strengthen the construction of teaching staff: cultivate a professional national defense education teaching staff and improve teachers' national defense literacy and teaching ability. By organizing training and academic exchanges, teachers' professional level can be improved and better national defense education services can be provided for teenagers.

4. Promote the construction of schools and society: strengthen the cooperation between schools and the army, government, enterprises and institutions, and promote the development of national defense education. Military experts and retired soldiers can be invited to the campus to carry out national defense education and patriotic propaganda for young people.

5. Guide family participation: Family is an important environment for children's growth, and parents should actively guide their children to participate in national defense education activities. Children's national defense consciousness and patriotic feelings can be cultivated by reading military books at home and participating in parent-child activities with military themes.