Developing museum education activities for social studies course and evaluation of the effects of famous academic achievements

With our research, the main goal was to enable students to take an active role in social studies education. n this process, it was desired to observe that learning can take place not only in the classroom or school, but also in environments outside the school, and that the scientific aspects of students can develop consciously and willingly through experiences at the point of accessing information. It was aimed to raise awareness about museums together with and at the end of the process, to realize that museums have an important structure in terms of educational perspective and especially in terms of social studies course, and to provide students with new skills about education. In this study, a 2X2 split-plot mixed pattern was used. n the quantitative part of the study, dependent and independent variable measurements were made on the experimental and control groups. In the qualitative part, semi-structured interview technique was applied. The participants of the research are 50 7th grade students in a public school in the center of Gaziantep in the 2020-2021 academic year. The quantitative data of the study were analyzed with the SPSS 22.00 program, and the Shapiro-Wilk normality test and skewness calculation were performed to find answers to the research questions of the study. Qualitative data were evaluated with descriptive analysis method. Based on the achievement of discussing the contributions of the scholars who grew up in the Turkish-Islamic civilization to the scientific development process, pre-tests were given to the experimental and control groups one week before the application, and then a teaching activity was applied in the classroom by adhering to the curriculum. In addition, a museum tour activity was carried out with the experimental group. Afterwards, the post-test was applied to both groups. In the last stage of the research, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 8 students. As a result of the research, it was determined that museum education, which is one of the out-of-school learning environments for the social studies course, improved the course success level of the students in the experimental group. In addition, the data obtained from the semi-structured interview form reveal important results in terms of revealing the students' thoughts on museum education and its impact.