The examination of levels of using drama in instructional activities on science and technology teachers at elementary schools: Sample of Kırşehir

With this research, the Science and Technology teachers in Kırşehir whose levels of use drama techniques in teaching activities are tried to be determined according to various parameters. The prepared questionnaire was applied to the 65 male and 53 female science and technology teachers working in the city center and towns of Kırşehir and the results which were convenient to the sub-problems, frequency and percentage distribution were analysed by impleting Ki-square test and Cramer?s V test. According to the analyses % 58,7 mean of the scince teachers had knowledge about drama techniques. It came on the scene that % 49,6 mean of them used different drama techniques in the teaching learning process. More over the frequency of using drama techniques was analyesed connected with gender, the faculty which was graduated, whether or not getting pre-education about drama, whether or not having knowledge about drama and the hours of lessons they have in each week. It was reached that according to these analyses male teachers used six thinking hats technique and station technique more than female teachers, the teachers graduated from the faculty of education used comparison technique more than the teachers graduated from the faculty of science literature and other faculties, all drama techniques were used by the teachers who had knowledge about them before hand than the ones who had no knowledge and imitation, animation in the mind, event animation, comparison and station techniques were used more by the teachers who had 15?18 hour of lessons than the teachers who had lessons more than 18 hours in each week.