AN INVESTIGATION OF TEACHING PRISMS IN 5TH GRADES SUPPORTED BY EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT


Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Matematik ve Fen Bilimleri Eğitimi Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2019

Öğrenci: ECE KANDİLLİ

Eş Danışman: GAYE TEKSÖZ, DİDEM AKYÜZ

Özet:

The purpose of this study is to investigate teaching prisms in 5th grades supported by Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) by answering what 5th grade students think about the meaning of ESD in terms of recycling and packing waste, what the thinking strategies of 5th grade students for classification and nets of prisms are and what 5th grade students think about learning prisms using instruction supported with ESD. For this purpose, it was planned to support the prisms with the concepts of recycling and packaging waste. At the same time, students were made to use the concepts of prisms with recycling and associate them with daily life. The study was designed as a case study in qualitative research with content analysis. The results were compared by using documentation, observation and interview for content analysis. The study was conducted during the spring semester of the 2016-2017 academic year in a public middle school in Haymana district in Ankara, Turkey. For the study, one of the fifth grade level classes was used. The sample of the study consisted of 18 fifth grade students (9 female and 9 male), and 7 students who were interviewed at the end of the study were selected through purposeful sampling method. The study lasted 8 class hours and approximately two weeks. The results of the study reveal students’ thinking in prisms topic and their awareness of recycling and packaging wastes.