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Funda Gül Iri; Emine Cil – Science Educator, 2022
Plant blindness is defined as the inability to notice plants in one's own environment, recognize their importance for the environment and human beings, appreciate their aesthetic and unique biological features, and the tendency to rank plants as inferior to animals. Many people exhibit symptoms of plant blindness (Wandersee & Schussler, 1999).…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Books, Field Trips, Plants (Botany)
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Sanlitürk, Arda Danistay; Zeybek, Gülçin – Journal of Science Learning, 2022
In the digital age we live in, electronic teaching materials can effectively increase students' participation in the learning and teaching process. In addition, it is known that using visual materials in science education has a positive effect on learning in this direction. The study aims to determine the effect of digital concept cartoons in the…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods, Cartoons, Science Instruction
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Yangin, Selami – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
This study analyses the effectiveness of ethnobotanic activities on learning performance of pre-service teachers about plants' classification. The research design was a quasi-experimental model. The results of the study revealed that the experimental group in which ethnobotanical activities were carried out was more successful for answers given to…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Classification, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Özarslan, Murat; Çetin, Gülcan – Science Education International, 2018
The aim of the study was to determine gifted and talented students' views about biology activities in a science and art center. The study was conducted with 26 gifted and talented students who studied at a science and art center in southwestern Turkey. Students studied animal and plant genus and species in biology activities. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Talent, Student Attitudes, Biology, Science Instruction
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Çil, Emine; Yanmaz, Durmus – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2017
Human beings do not usually recognize plants although they exist widely in their environment. This condition has been described as plant blindness in literature. The main purpose of this study is to examine pre-service elementary teachers' awareness of plants. Moreover, the study examined from which sources student-teachers gained knowledge about…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Plants (Botany), Teacher Education Programs
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Gungor, Sema Nur; Ozkan, Muhlis – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study examines the subjects and concepts in biology perceived to be difficult to learn and teach by 759 pre-service biology teachers registered in the pedagogical formation program at Uludag University Faculty of Education in the academic year of 2005-2016, as well as the associations that word "biology" first calls to their mind.…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Genetics, Classification, Teaching Methods
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Çìl, Emine – Journal of Biological Education, 2016
Plants are an integral part of nature. Many plant species in almost any part of the world are under serious threats due to various reasons such as deforestation, pollution--of air, water and soil--caused by industrialisation, overgrazing and rapid population growth. It is likely that people have strong positive attitudes towards conservation of…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Student Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
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Saka, Arzu – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
The purpose of this study is to develop a new approach and assess the application for the science and technology student-teachers to gain varied laboratory methods in science and technology teaching. It is also aimed to describe the computer-assisted POE application in the subject of "Photosynthesis-Light" developed in the context of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Botany, Interviews
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Çil, Emine – American Biology Teacher, 2015
Students need to be aware of plants in order to learn about, appreciate, care for, and protect them. However, research has found that many children are not aware of the plants in their environment. A way to address this issue might be integration of plants with various disciplines. I investigated the effectiveness of an instructional approach…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Plants (Botany)
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Ekici, Fatma; Ekici, Erhan; Aydin, Fatih – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2007
In this study, the effectiveness of concept cartoons in diagnosing and overcoming students' misconceptions related to photosynthesis subject was examined. Firstly, the literature has been thoroughly examined and misconceptions about photosynthesis subject have been listed and then grouped. Concept cartoons related to these groups have been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Grade 8
Kilinc, Ahmet – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this study is to prepare inquiry based experimental activities on the photosynthesis, thought to be a very difficult subject by pupils, and to determine the pupil's ideas towards this method. This study was made with 24 pupils from Grade 3 at Ataturk Anatolian High school in Turkey. As data gathering material; seven inquiry…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Plants (Botany), Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Cibik, Ayse Sert; Diken, Emine Hatun; Darcin, Emine Selcen – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2008
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the use of group works and demonstration experiments based on conceptual change approach in the elimination of misconception about the subject of photosynthesis and respiration in plants in pre-service science teachers. This study was conducted with 78 pre-service science teachers including…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Schools of Education, Science Laboratories