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Scientific process skills are the foundations of science and allows doing research and drawing conclusions. Scientific process skills, one of the most important tools to produce and edit information about people around the world. Therefore, the students needed to have the understanding and skills to do scientific research. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the nature of science activities on elementary 4th grade students' scientific process skills. The study group of the study is 65 fourth grade students educating in San Francisco in a medium socio-economic elementary school in the term of 2012-2013. The study was conducted with quantitative research methods. One group pretest-posttest measurement in this study was applied to the experimental model. For data collection; scientific process skills scale was used. The application of the study lasted 9 weeks and all students were given the scales as pretest and posttest. The results showed that there are significant differences between pretest and posttest with regard to science process skills in favor of posttest.

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