Sustainability for preschool children and e-book review

The education to be given for environmental sustainability starting from the pre-school period will ensure that the environmental sustainability knowledge and behaviors of children are permanent for life. This research was planned in order to prepare an illustrated e-book in the digital environment in accordance with the literature on environmental sustainability and to determine the effect of sustainability education integrated with e-books on the sustainable environmental knowledge of preschool children aged 57-72 (average 63 months). In the research, the pre-test post-test unequalized control group model, which is one of the semi-experimental models, was used. The sample of the study was determined as 24 children, aged 57-71 months, attending an official preschool education institution affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Adana province Çukurova district. "Attitudes Towards Environment Scale (CATES-PV): Environmental Attitude Scale Towards Children (Preschool Version)" and "Personal Information Form" were used as data collection tools in the research. In the research, "E-Book Integrated Sustainability Training" was applied to the experimental group for eight weeks. After the three picture e-books prepared by the researcher were shared interactively with the children, supportive activities were carried out. The data obtained in the research were analyzed with the Mann-Whitney-U test and the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test. When the Mann Whitney-U test results are examined in terms of the experimental and control group variables of the pre-test scores, it is seen that there is no significant difference between the groups (p>.05). When the Mann Whitney-U test results were examined in terms of the experimental and control group variables of the post-test scores, there was a significant difference between the experimental group and the experimental group (p<.05). According to the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test results of the pre-test and post-test scores of the experimental group, there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of the children in the experimental group (p<.05). In the light of these data, it was concluded that E-Book Integrated Sustainability Education is effective in children's environmental sustainability knowledge. Keywords: Sustainability, Picture e-books, Environmental Education, Preschool Education