?Drama? as a teaching technique in 8th grade T.C. Revolution History and Kemalism

In this research, it was aimed to compose activities about how drama techniques can be used in ?Independence War? unit in Turkish Republic Revolution History and Kemalism lesson; describe and research whether the composed activities increase the students subject learning level or not. For this aim, drama techiques about the subjects in Independence War unit were applied on an experiment group and traditional teaching techniques were applied on a checking group. In this study which is an experimental and descriptive master?s degree thesis it was attempted to show the use of drama technique in Turkish Republic Revolution History and Kemalism lesson and an answer was searched for the question of ?Is there any meaningful difference between the learning level and attitudes of experiment group and checking group??This search was aplied on total 96 8th grade students 50 of who are from Lalahan Primary School and 46 of who are from Lalahan Serdar Tosun Primary School which are in Lalahan town in Elmadağ county in Ankara city, in 2006-2007 education year.Data gained from the search was collected with the unit success test and attitude measure that were developed by the researcher. After making the content validity of the unit success test and attitude measure, the tests reliability study was done. According to the application results, it was found out that reliability coefficient of unit success test is 0,77; reliability coefficient of attitude measure is 0,86.Two weeks before the ?Independence War? unit started, unit success test and attitude measure was applied as the intial test on experiment and checking groups. Two weeks after 6 weeks of application same tests were applied as the last test. Data gained from the search was analyzed by the t-test.As a result, all the data gained shows that drama tecnique effects the students? lesson success and their attitude toward lesson in a positive way.Key Words: History, Teaching Technique, Education, Drama