Abstract:

Thinking emerges as a concept of the modern information age, which includes deep mental processes such as creativity, symbolization, problem solving, classification and planning. In the 21st century, technology plays an important role in the development of scientific thinking and concepts with the opportunities it offers. However, thinking maps are used as a very effective method in making children's ideas about scientific concepts visible. From this point of view, this research was carried out in order to examine the views of pre-school children on technology-based scientific concepts through thinking maps. The study group of the research; The 5-6 age group consists of 20 children. In the research, the 'Personal Information Form' and 'The Evaluation Form of Children's Views on Scientific Concepts' prepared by the researchers were used as data collection tools. The data of the research were analyzed and interpreted according to the content analysis technique, one of the qualitative research techniques. As a result of the research; Parents, school environment and technology were found to be effective in learning concepts related to the theme of 'sound' for physical sciences, 'animal' for life sciences, and 'Space' for Earth and space sciences. In particular, it has been determined that technological resources are more effective in the acquisition of concepts related to the space theme. From technological sources, it has been seen that mostly children prefer cartoons. It has been concluded that the scientific concepts that children know about the thinking maps we used in the study are quite effective in determining the learning resources and technology use.

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