The impact of cooperative learning in daining the objectives which are in "matter and heat" subject in science and technology lesson for the six grade primary school students

In this study, it is researched the effects of the Cooperative Learning Method on the academic achievements and the attitudes toward lesson of the sixth grade students in primary school.This study?s sampling consists of sixty-seven students in sixth grade class at Fatih Primary School As one of these sixth grade classes are determined as ?the test group?, the other is determined as ?control group?. The subject ?Matter and Heat? in Science and Technology Lesson was handled in both groups. While lessons were done by Cooperative Learning Method in the test group, they were done by the method of centralized teacher education in the control group. İn the study Subject Achievement Test and Survey of Attitudes Toward Science and Technology were practiced for two groups as preliminary test and final test. Moreover, Survey of Sudents? Opinions was taken to get opinions of students? in test group about cooperative learning after the work.The analysis of data was made by using arithmetic average, Independent-Samples t-Test and Paired-Samples t-Test.According to the findings from the study; it is determined statistically that Cooperative Learning Methods practiced for the test group in the Science and Technology Lesson are more effective in increasing the achievement than the methods of centralized teacher education. It is seen that there isn?t any significant change in test group students? attitudes toward Science and Technology Lesson. However, it was observed that test group students would be able to improve the positive attitude toeard lesson by the Cooperative Learning Method.