The effect of 'electricity in life' unit of 7th grade in primary schools to student success which has been prepared with educational games

In this study, it is aimed to compare the academic success to see if there is any meaningful difference between the control and the experimental groups that received constructive approach supported by 5E method with educational games on the unit 'Electricity In Our Daily Life' at 7th grade. Related to the aim of this research, semi-experimental design method was used. The sample of the research consists of 106 students attending to aprimary school in Amasya in the 2013-2014 academic year. Based on the pre-test results given to the students, the class 7A was accepted as the experimental group and 7B as a control group.It was determined that the representation ratio of the sample which includes 42 students, which covers the universe is %40. After the pilot application,the educational games were placed into the steps of the 5E learning model of the sample and applied to the experimental group during the unit 'Electricity in Our Daily Life'. Following to all applications, the successes of the experimental and control groups were given as a post-test and the results were analyzed in SPSS program. Related to the obtained results, there is a meaningful difference in favor of the experimental group that received educational games. This result indicates that it is necessary to give educational games to the students in teaching of Science and Technology to increase the academic success. In this context, some suggestions are given to the teachers who apply educational games and the academicians who would like to make researches in this field of science.