Augmented reality in early childhood education: The effect of Quiver application on learning science

In this study, it was aimed to investigate how teaching science in the preschool period using the Quiver application, which is an augmented reality application, will have an effect on learning levels compared to science teaching with traditional methods. Experimental design was used in the research, and accordingly, children of two kindergarten classes of 20 children each with similar characteristics who continue to pre-school education in the same school were included in the study. One of the classes determined by the random assignment method formed the control group and the other formed the experimental group. 5 science education topics (water cycle and rain formation, life cycle of plants, sea creatures, life cycle of frogs, food chain) suitable for preschool period determined by the researcher were explained in the same verbal expressions by the same researcher on the same day for 5 weeks in both classes. explained and implemented. Just before and just after the applications, pre-tests and post-tests were applied to the children with the pre-prepared checklists and their knowledge levels were measured. Data were analyzed using the non-parametric Mann Whitney U test used in the analysis of quantitative data. Analyzes were made for each theme separately and the results were found, and the overall result was found by analyzing all the data. As a result of the research, it was concluded that the activity processes planned with augmented reality application provide higher learning by creating a significant difference compared to the activity processes planned with traditional methods. When the themes are examined separately, there is a significant difference in favor of the experimental groups in the themes of the water cycle and rain formation, the life cycle of plants and the food chain, while there is no significant difference between the knowledge levels of the experimental and control groups in the themes of the life cycle of the frog and sea creatures