Abstract:

In primary school, science lessons includes basic science concepts and facts of life. In science lessons, teachers have to use proper methods and technics to help the students learning the concepts and the relations between them correctly and reminding the subjects that the students learnt easily. One of them is drama technic. In drama activities students dramatize a subject by role playing and in this technic they learn the subject by practicing and living. The aim of this research is finding the effect of drama technic on academic success and remembering the subjects that the students learnt. Thus, drama technic was used on teaching “electricity” subject in 6th class science lesson. This research was experienced in a primary school in Ümraniye in Istanbul in the educational season 1999-2000. In this research, one class in this school was taught with as direct expression and question-answer technics classically, another class was taught with drama technic in addition to the classical method. For measuring the achievement “electricity test” that was checked by the expert , 80% reliable , was prepared by the researcher. This test was used before applying the method as “pre-test”, after just applying the method as “final-test” and after 8 weeks from finishing the method as “remembering-test”. The results were evaluated on the computer by SPSS packet programme. According to the results, using drama technic in science lesson makes the students remember the subjects that they learnt more easily than the classical method. It is clear that with drama technic the students forgot the subjects less than the other group because of not memorizing but understanding and living. Key Words : Science Education, Drama Technic, Play

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