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Tasdelen, Özlem; Güven, Turan – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This study investigated how pre-service biology teachers perceived the concepts of 'system' -- as the basic component of the systems thinking approach -- and 'biological system' specific to biology. The most important characteristics of a system appear as elements, interactions, interconnections, hierarchy, purpose and forming a whole. The data of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Biology, Foreign Countries, Science Education
Ferhat Karakaya; Canan Bilgili; Neslihan Soysal; Mehmet Yilmaz – Turkish Journal of Education, 2023
Considering both the ecological niches of fungi and the different benefits they provide to humans, it is expected that students have a high level of scientific knowledge about living things in this kingdom. In the study, it was aimed to examine the learning of secondary school students about living things in the fungi kingdom. The research, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biological Sciences, Science Education, Secondary School Students
Hilal Mert; Zafer Kus – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2023
The main purpose of this research is to reveal the identity to be constructed with the illustrations in the life science textbooks in terms of identity types. Case study, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the research. The data sources of the research consist of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade life science textbooks taught in Turkey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biological Sciences, Grade 1, Grade 2
Nurcan Keles; Mary Nyaema – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2023
The goal of the study was to compare how visual representations were integrated into the contents of the U.S. and Turkish textbooks used in life science. Data was collected from 6th, 7th, and 8th grade middle school topics common to both countries. Content analysis was used to analyse visual representations in textbooks. The visual representations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Biological Sciences, Middle Schools
Kucuk, Arzu – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
This research aimed to compare the effect of teaching science through-creative-drama activities and student-centred inquiry-based teaching on the cognitive structures of primary school pupils about the classification of living things. It was designed as an exploratory action research case study and the contribution of both interventions on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Creative Teaching, Drama
Ayra, Mücahit; Kösterelioglu, Ilker – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
The aim of this research is to examine the effect of the lesson study practice on the academic achievements of primary school students in the Life Sciences Course. The study was performed with quantitative research method by using a quasi-experimental design, namely, the pretest-posttest control group design. The research was conducted with the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biological Sciences, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Karakaya, Ferhat; Bozkurt, Seyda; Yilmaz, Mehmet – Pedagogical Research, 2022
In the research, it was aimed that children in the age group of 4-6 discover a different group of living things (fungi) living in addition to the plants and animals around them and to develop their awareness of living things. In addition, the study examined the effect of the activities prepared at the nature observation center on the cognitive and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Natural Resources, Foreign Countries, Learning Activities
Karakas, Hamdi – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
The study aims to determine the effect of socioscientific issues-based activities on the attitudes of primary school teacher candidates' about life science teaching. In this research, 78 primary school teacher candidates (52 females, 26 male) determined by criterion sampling method participated. Attitude Scale of Life Science Teaching was used as…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Science Instruction
Akcan, Emrullah – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2022
This paper aimed to determine primary school teachers' practices and classroom examples regarding culturally responsive education (CRE) in their life science courses. The study was conducted with the participation of 20 teachers, half of whom were employed in a primary school in Gaziantep province and the other half employed in the PIKTES…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary School Teachers, Refugees, Language Usage
Sekerci, Hanifi; Yilmaz, Ferat – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Purpose: In this study, the hypothesis put forward is that empathetic tendency and respectful behaviour are related to conflict resolution skills and that the variable of respectful behaviour can play a role as a mediating variable between empathetic tendency and conflict resolution skills. Within the scope of the research, it is aimed to test…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Gul, Seyda – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2021
The fungi kingdom is among the important topics of biology, and students can develop misunderstandings and misconceptions about this subject. This study aims to determine misunderstandings and misconceptions of 5th-grade students about fungi. The participants of the study consisted of 22 (12 girls, 10 boys) fifth graders of an elementary school in…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Misconceptions, Biological Sciences
Bas, Murat; Tay, Bayram; Isik Tertemiz, Nese – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2021
A subject worth examining was the interdisciplinary approach's planning and application of two distinct disciplines and investigating the value acquisition inclinations of students who participated in the multidisciplinary approach. In this context, the problem sentence of the research is that: Does integrate mathematics and life sciences teaching…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematics Instruction, Biological Sciences, Science Instruction
Kaya, Mehmet Fatih; Agir, Oktay – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
This research aims to assess the impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic process on the knowledge, thoughts, actions, and awareness of primary school pupils regarding "healthy life," in accordance with the attainments of the Turkish Life Science curriculum. The research was conducted using phenomenology. Maximum variation sampling was utilized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Health Behavior, Life Style
Karbeyaz, Aytekin; Kurt, Murat – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of teaching the subjects and concepts under "life in nature" unit of the 3rd grade life science lesson, on the academic achievement and attitudes of the students. In order to achieve this aim, a quasi-experimental model with pretest posttest control group was used in the study. In…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Science Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Biological Sciences
Simsek, Selçuk; Erdem, Ali Riza – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
Life Science is a course that has been taught since the beginning of the first years of Turkish Republic. Life Science curriculum was revised in 1924, 1936, 1948, 1968 and 1998, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2017 and 2018. When the structure of 2018 Life Sciences curriculum is examined, it is seen that the curriculum is composed of general aims, values, basic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Biological Sciences, Science Curriculum