The effect of the history diagrams to the achievement of the students on social studies

In this study it is aimed to determine the effect of History Diagrams to thestudents? achievements in Social Studies and determine the diagrams? kinds according totheir usage.The research is a descriptive definition which was made in Zonguldak, in 2008-2009 education term, in 3 schools ,which had been determined before. The universe ofthe research is the 3 schools in Zonguldak. 6th grade students(60 students) who werechosen randomly from three schools which had been determined systematically inZonguldak constitued the sample.An achievement test which has got 25 questions about the resarched subject wasprepared by the researcher. The achievement test was applied in 3 schools teaching withtraditional methods. Also some diagrams including the resarched subject were preparedfor the research. According to kinds of their usage, these diagrams had been applied withseperately techniques in three schools in which traditional techniques used. After thediagrams? being used in teaching, the questions of the prepared achievement test wereapplied to the students again.In the analysis of the datas frequency and percentagecountings were done by using software SPSS 15 (Statistical Package for Social Science)In this study we reached important results about the effects of the diagrams?kinds of usage on students? success in learning.About the kinds of the diagrams? usage itwas determined that the first method had increased the achievement of the students 12,2%, the second method increased 16,3 %, the third method increased 21 %. In general itwas seen that using the diagrams in lessons increased the achievement of the students16,5 %.