The analysis of social sciences coursebook's inadequency in primary schools second stages: 6. and 7. graduates

To know the current events and to follow these events increase student?s ability to harmonize with life. Also, it provides them to be intertwined with life. It has an important place for civic education. We can fallow the current events by means of newspapers, magazines, and television, internet communication tools. It is very useful to follow past events in history and important events we must to take into consideration, as well as current events.People can access the information that they are looking for by books, magazines, articles, internet etc. these types of sources are very important for everybody to be informed, guided and demonstrated the desired behaviors.In education, different materials are used. Textbooks, teacher?s guide, workbooks, skill books, videos and CD are the most important resources for teaching. These resources are used in education. And, expected behaviors from students are in these resources.The most important resource is ?textbooks?. It does not lose its importance and it is much more used than the other sources. Textbooks are prepared according to the procedures in the training program. Contents have a format like that from easy to difficult, from simple to complex and from close to away. Topics are prepared to stimulate students? prior knowledge to new information and to form new knowledge.There are some problems with textbooks as well as other materials. The main problems are that procedures in textbooks are away from the training program, textbooks couldn?t reflect the training program procedure, the content isn?t appropriate for students? level, textbooks are prepared in low quality etc.Social studies lesson, one of the axis lessons, is an important lesson. Students begin to see this lesson on the second stage. By means of social studies lesson, students will be familiar with the next term lessons such as history, geography and citizenship.Social studies lesson is an important lesson which contains current events and past experiences, and also it is related to daily life. Students shouldn?t be broken away from social life in which they live. Beside this, the social contents should be organized to provide students to have individuality. Social studies programs have the responsibility to educate working people who understand the technological changes and world?s problems, try to define and solve these problems. Therefore, the content of social studies textbooks are very important textbooks in terms of keeping up with current events, the language expressions is simple and fluid, to be appropriate in terms of teaching and learning, the technical design is regular and to be enough for students.Omissions and errors in textbooks have a negative influence on expected behaviors from students and cause students away from lessons. The purpose of this study acting on this belief Primary II level (6th and 7th graders) Analyzing Social Science Subject Area of the textbook Qualification is to determine teachers? view, the teachers are social studies teachers and they work with 6th and 7th graders in Çanakkale.System of the study is occurred by the way of the textbooks which are taught in classrooms and schools belonging to 2010-2011 academic districts in the province of Çanakkale and the Ministry of Education official primary school and by the way of teachers of these lessons. The sample of the study is occurred 110 teachers. The study was investigated by a questionnaire which was prepared by social studies teachers? view who works with 6th and 7th graders in primary school.Keywords : Social Studies, Textbook, Content Analysis.