The effects of activity based teaching on the environmental responsible citizenship behaviors

By this study, it is aimed to investigate the effects of the activities that formate the environmental literacy skill to the students' environmental responsible citizenship behaviors. At this study, it was made use of the mixed research design which includes quantitative and qualitative data together. In the context of quantitative research, it was utilised from the control group pattern which is quasi-experimental and whose pre-test and final test is matched. In this context, the behavior scale formalised by Ozdemir Ozden (2011) is applied to the students simultaneously, in accordance with people, places and environments' learning domain as a pre-test and final test. While the class 5-D is the control group, the class 5-F is chosen as the experimental group. The topics were taught to the experimental group with varied activities during five weeks; to the control group, on the other hand, the topics were taught in terms of standard curriculum. As to the qualitative reseach process, the semi-structured interview which connected to the activities applied at the course was applied to the 8 students chosen from the experimental group. After the topics were taught, the implementation was completed by applying the final test to both of the groups. SPSS programme was applied to the analysis of the quantitative data. T test was used at the analysis. In terms of findings attained in consequence of the analysis, it was confirmed that there is an important difference on behalf of the experimental group. According to this research, the students of experimental group taught varied activities are more successful than the students of control group taught just the standard curriculum. It was attained that the students learn the environment and environmental education pretty well, this increases their interest and attention much more and finally they learn people, places and environments better with semi-structured interviews. By the results of this research, it is suggested that teachers should make use of the activity based teaching method and varied materials at Social Sciences course. Science code:11009 Keywords: Environmental Literacy, Activity Based Teaching, Environmental Education, Environmental Respansible Citizenship, Social Sciences Total Pages:105 Advisor: Asst.Prof. Tahsin YILDIRIM