Outdoor education stands out as one of the methods to deliver the desired educational outcomes taking the needs of the students, teachers and the curricular objectives into consideration. Outdoor education focuses on experimental, hands-on learning in real-life environments through senses, e.g., through visual, auditory, and tactile means, improving students' learning and retention of knowledge as a result. Appropriate sites outside of the classroom and school environment are chosen as the setting for outdoor education. Students are assessed over their performances related to the experiments and applications via observations and reports. Generally speaking, outdoor education is not common in Turkey, whereas in specific, at the elementary level, outdoor education seems to be limited to certain social activities and field trips rendered within the scope of student clubs. As Pedretti [1] et al. concluded in their study, the efficiency of outdoor education depends on the teachers. Based on the said study, teachers should be allowed to collaborate with their colleagues to analyze existing outdoor education programs and develop programs of their own. On the other hand, only teachers that are aware of outdoor education ask for such opportunities from the administrative bodies. Therefore, in this study, Turkish classroom teachers' current awareness and perspectives on outdoor education were assessed via descriptive analysis. The specific study group chosen for the study consisted of the classroom teachers working in Şahinbey County of Gaziantep Province. As for collection of the relevant qualitative data, participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interviewing form.
Synthesis and characterization of environmentally friendly metallo-organic corrosion inhibitors for protection of mild steel and certain aluminum alloys are being sought to replace carcinogenic hexavalent chromium based corrosion inhibitors. Given the toxicity and carcinogenicity of chromates, the purpose of this study is not just synthesizing any efficient corrosion inhibitors for certain alloys of certain metals to be applied in different environments, but also to find environmentally friendly corrosion inhibitors for successful chromate replacements. In this regard, the standard for an environmentally friendly inhibitor is considered as having acceptable or no toxicity compared to chromate inhibitors. Studying the reasons underlying the success of chromate inhibitors seems to be the first reasonable approach one might take before formulating chromate replacements. Therefore, synergistic combinations of carboxylic acids and zinc cation, which is well-known for its cationic inhibiting efficiency producing carboxylate salts of zinc with a general formula of (Zn) (hydroxyacid) 2 are aimed to be synthesized and characterized. Practical results have proven the hypothesized advantages of zinc carboxylates correct and yielded that certain zinc carboxylates can be suitable corrosion inhibitors for certain metals and their alloys under specific circumstances.
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