Active learning applications in geography teaching

The purpose of this study is to find the effect of active teaching approach onthe attitudes of learners towards environment problems and the class of Geographyof Environmental Problems, and their academic achievement in learning the unittitled environment pollution (air, water, soil and radioactive pollution) in the class ofGeography of Environmental Problems taught at the fourth class of educationfaculties.The research was conducted in the model of experimental design. In order tocollect data, achievement test and a scale of attitudes towards environmentalproblems and the class of Geography of Environmental Problems were used. Theinstruments were administered to 88 participants who study at fourth class of thedivision of Geography Teaching of Department of Secondary Social FieldsEducation at Necatibey Education Faculty of Balıkesir University.The unit on the environment pollution was taught by the teaching staffsimultaneously using active learning methods in experimental group and traditionalexpression and question ? answer methods in control group.In the analysis of sub-problems of the research, percentages, frequencies,mean scores, one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) and two-way variance analysisfor repeated measures on single factor were used.Depending on the findings obtained from achievement test and attitude scale,the results of the research indicated that there is a significant difference in favor ofexperimental group when the ?Environment Pollution? is considered.