The effect of 5e model supported with case study on 6th grade students academic success in the unit ?The Systems of Body Structures? and attitude towards science

The purpose of this study is to show the effect of case study based 5E learning cycle on 6th class primary school students? on their attitude towards science courses subjects and on their success while being taught of ?the systems of body structures? units of science and technology courses.The sampling of this study is constructed from the 40, 6th class students of Emniyetçiler Primary School, in Yenimahalle district of Ankara province. The study was realized during the second semester of the 2008 ? 2009 academic year.In this research, an experimental pattern with pretest-posttest-control groups was used. Several practices were performed in the frame of Science and Technology Teaching Program by applying 5E model supported with case study to the experimental group and 5E learning model to the control group. In experimental group, it was used case studies which is selected from newspaper.According to the model of control-group pretest-posttest design with experimental pattern, ?Achievement Test of Unit on The Systems of Body Structures? and ?Attitude Survey on Science and Technology Lesson? were implemented 2 times as at the beginning and at the end of the implementation. Statically evaluated outcomes brought out that the education done with the 5E model supported with case study did not have meaningful impact on student success and his attitude toward science.Key Words: Science and technology education, case study, 5E learning model