Suitability of the questions in fourth and fifth grade textbooks to critical thinking and teacher?s opinions about the lesson activities

The objective of the thesis is to analyze the suitability of the questions in fourth and fifth grade textbooks to critical thinking and teacher?s opinions about the lesson activities.Problem sentence of the thesis is; ?Are the questions in fourth and fifth grade textbooks suitable to critical thinking and do teachers opinions about lesson activities differ from their gender, seniority, workplace and class level?This descriptive study?s universal is to from class teachers who teach fourth and fifth grade students in Çanakkale provincial borders. The research?s sample confirm with doing rational set and this sample is 132 class teachers in every town in Çanakkale.In the direction of the thesis, to collect data, the researcher use data collection scale which is arrenged by the researcher. In research data analyze, the datas are eveluated in computer environment and the ressearcher benefits from SPSS program for statistical analysis. The results of these evaluation t-Test is applied for unrelated groups according to gender, class level and work place variants. And in this evaluation level of significance criteria is 0.05. One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used to test significance of point types according to seniority variant and Tukey test is used to understand which point types this significance is located.The findings of this research are these: the general analyze of the teachers? answers to ?suitability scale of the questions to critical thinking? are 71,174. The arithmetic mean of the answers to ?scale of the activities? are 91,121. According to these; teachers? opinions about the suitability of the questions in textbooks to critical thinking are intermediate. And their opinions about lesson activities in textbooks are intermediate too.KEY WORDS: Critical thinking, textbooks, questions, activity