The Salt (Science-Arts-Language-Technology) Comenius Project: Primary School Students' Views about Salt

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate students' views towards salt structure, properties and application areas. "The SALT Comenius Project" initiated activities in 2012. This project was conducted with 10 European countries including Turkey, Germany, Italy, Poland, Greece, Spain, Estonia, Austria, Romania, and Scotland. The aim of this project is to develop friendships between primary school students through science, art, language, technology, and culture and to increase students' attention towards salt in daily life. In the first project meeting, the project partners developed a semi-structured questionnaire to measure students' views about the structure and properties of salt. Participants were 161 primary school students from project partner countries. In this study, Data were gathered by the qualitative research method. In students' views, salt is a substance used in food; salt is gathered only from sea salt; salt is composed of tiny crystals; salt is bad for health; salt is gathered only from rocks.