Abstract:

Learning activities are extra studies about teaching topics to enhance learning process. They have been represented as exercise, homework, activity, performance task, workplace, Project through years. Their applications change based on education approaches. Behaviorist approach focus on exercises. The aim of exercises is to provide enhancement of study topics. Exercise were supported to the students to reinforce study topics and the students were expected to do them regularly in the past. Recently, activities have been focused on by giving by this application. The aims of activity are to provide effective and willingly student learning. In education process, students can develop language, conscious and social skills by making various activities cooperatively. Applied activities are main teaching tools of constructivist approach with the aim of providing student learning effectively, easily and permanently and motivation. While exercises aim to change behaviors, activities face to conscious and develop skills such as language, conscious, social and physical. Activities help students learn knowledge actively and construct them in their minds. Moreover, they direct the students to examine the knowledge, find the meanings of events and phenomena, organize and construct their own thoughts; that is, learning by trying and inventing. Briefly, learning by activities is learning by doing and inventing. Based on this view, various activities have been supported to the students in lesson books by twelve years and they have been applied in teaching. It was observed that the activities in lesson books were not at the expected level and quality at the end of the study. It was determined that while some activities were prepared based on the view of exercises or used instead of them, some of them had the properties of the activities completely.

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