6th grade primary students? attitudes towards sexual content in science and technology course

This research aimed to examine 6th grade primary students? attitudes and behaviours related to sexual content of the concepts which are in ?Reproductive, Growth and Development in Living Beings? unit in Science and Technology course and identify whether there were significant differences between the attitudes in terms of variables.The research group consists of 306 students studying 2010?2011 education year in Osman Atilla Primary School, Kocatepe Primary School, Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak Primary School and Kazım Özer Primary School in the central district of Afyonkarahisar.Comparisons between groups for the scores obtained from the research sub-problems, the independent simple t test and one way ANOVA were used.The findings of the research revealed that students can?t show positive or negative attitude towards sexuality, they show positive attitude towards learning this unit at school and they show negative attitude towards learning this topic in Science and Technology course.Between students? attitudes concerning the sexual nature of the concepts and explanations in favor of male students according to gender and according to family income variables in favor of incomes which are 2500 TL above at 0,05 significant difference were found. There was no significant differences in terms of other variables.