Bir Bilimsel Gezi Sonrası 7. Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Evsel Atıklar ve Geri Dönüşüme Yönelik Deneyimlerinin İncelenmesi

Abstract

Purpose: This research study aims to analyze the effects of teaching the subject of domestic waste and recycling, which isincluded in the Science course curriculum, in informal learning environments on secondary school students’ learning.Design/Methodology/Approach: In the research, the phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research designs, is used.The phenomenology design focuses on a person's first-order experiences about a phenomenon. And, it aims to have in-depthinformation about the phenomenon. The study group of the investigation consists of 14 secondary school students receivingeducation at a public school in Aksaray, during the spring semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. The trip evaluation formand the semi-structured interview questions developed by the researcher as data collection tools are used as pre-test and posttest. The data acquired from the investigation were analyzed by content and descriptive analysis methods. Codes, categories,themes, and subthemes were built for the student’s answers.Findings: According to the results obtained from the study, the students observed that recycling is not a simple process thatcan be applied easily. The students remarked that the recycling facility trip creates awakening and awareness towards theenvironment and facilitates learning by walking through, seeing, and having fun.Highlights: Based on this study, it is recommended to arrange field trips in different disciplines to forthese trips enable studentsto gain interesting and catchy experiences.

CERN Teacher’s Program Review in the Context of Interactive Learning Environments

“…The 2023 Vision for Education also emphasises the use of out-ofschool learning environments in line with learning outcomes (Ministry of National Education 2023 Vision Document). Today, where schools are limited in meeting scientific knowledge, it is essential to use informal learning environments as a learning environment (Demirel & Özcan, 2022;Şen, 2021). It is seen that informal learning environments provide students with positive attainments in many ways (Demirel & Özcan, 2020;Demirel & Özcan, 2022;Gülen & Bozdoğan, 2021).…”

“…Today, where schools are limited in meeting scientific knowledge, it is essential to use informal learning environments as a learning environment (Demirel & Özcan, 2022;Şen, 2021). It is seen that informal learning environments provide students with positive attainments in many ways (Demirel & Özcan, 2020;Demirel & Özcan, 2022;Gülen & Bozdoğan, 2021). As an example of these acquirements, it is stated in various studies that the activities carried out in informal learning environments are effective in students' understanding of concepts (Ertaş et al, 2011), their attitudes towards the subject (Yıldırım, 2018), their motivation (Yıldırım, 2020) and increasing on their interest (Dori & Tal, 2000).…”