Creating a science course of "movement and force" unit, "pressure" section for 7th grade elementary school, in an internet supported environment based on the principles of constructivist theory

Many distance learning software platforms are used on the net. Although these platforms are shows a large variety of differences according to their using principles, in common their basic mission is to present educational materials to the users effectively. In this research, a course context is prepared to use in distance learning based on the principles of constructivist theory and evaluated through student reviews. Moodle is used as course management system. Moodle is an open source course management system which can support more than 70 languages. This study is performed in two stages. In the first stage, a course context is prepared with Moodle and student reviews were evaluated with a "Constructivist on-line learning environment survey". This survey consists of 6 sections titled as; "Interest, Critical Thinking, Interactivity, Student Support, Mutual Support, Commenting". The sampling of the research is, Ç.Ü. Institute of Social Sciences, Students of MA. The findings of the research; as a result of the evaluations, the prepared course context has educational qualifications. Key Words: Distance learning, web based instruction, e-learning, moodle