SOCIAL STUDIES COURSE STUDENT VIEWS ON ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS GAINING MEDIA PRODUCTS TO EXPLOIT

Abstract

One of the main goals of Social Science course is to gain students a social personality. Hence, one of the important feature of a social personality is to be a good citizen and thus to have an environmental awareness. In this context, this study used media products to gain the students the environmental awareness through “Let’s know our Region” unit at the 5th grade Social Science course. Through questionnaire with open-ended questions, 12 girls and 10 boys; totally 22 students’ opinions about the use of media products to gain the environment awareness were examined and the obtained findings were supported with direct quotations. Consequently, most of the students enjoyed the activities and found them as beneficial. Additionally, they explained that using media products to gain the environmental awareness contributed to attain information about issue related to environment, gain environmental awareness; improve the research skills; realize environmental problems; keep up with the agenda; have interesting teaching process and increase their environmental conscience.