The Effect of Botanical Garden on Socio-Scientific Issues of Students’ Perspectives in the Teaching Process: Sustainable Environment
Journal Title: Journal of Computer and Education Research - Year 2019, Vol 7, Issue 14
Abstract
The aim of research is to design, conduct and implement an exemplary outdoor-school learning environment for Sustainable Environment that can be used in the 5th grade science course and to examine its reflections on students. Case study, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. The research was carried out with 32 students in 5th grade studying in a secondary school in the central district of Ağrı province in the second term of 2018-2019 academic year. In the study, activities were prepared according to the achievements of the 5th grade “Human and Environment” unit in the 2018 Science Education Program. The trip was organized to Ata Botanic Garden, which is one of the extra-school learning environments. The sustainable environmental scale was applied as a pre-test and post-test, and a statistically significant difference were found in favor of the post-test. After the trip, the students stated that they learned a lot from Ata Botanic Garden.
Authors and Affiliations
Gülsün Karslı, Orhan Karamustafaoğlu, Murat KURT
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