Abstract:

In this study, it has been tried to determine teachers' opinions about teaching some of the acquisitions in the "Sustainable Development" subject area in the 8th grade science lesson curriculum with the designed educational games and educational games. In this study, phenomenology method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. In the study, opinions were taken from 9 science teachers who work in public and private schools who are currently taking classes. The game designed was sent to the teachers in advance and they were asked to review, and then the study data were obtained by conducting semi-structured interviews with them. "Code" and "Theme" titles were created by analyzing the data and content analysis was made. From the findings, it was understood that the game did not fully meet an acquisition, and it was concluded that the teachers were positive about educational games. At the end of the study, necessary suggestions were made about the content of the research. Some of these suggestions are presented respectively. Educational games should be used more frequently in the teaching of lessons to benefit from the entertaining, stimulating and concretizing effects of it. Designed and successful educational games should be offered to teachers from open sources, and qualified games should be used in teaching.

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