Abstract:

Community of economic, technological, health, culture, art, change in many areas such as aesthetics, development, cross-community interactions, as in every field, there is also the field of education. The study was undertaken with the 3rd graders from the department of pre-school teaching of a university in Istanbul. It was aimed to detect these 3rd graders’ beliefs about the 5E method by enabling them to prepare various scientific experiments and to present them by using the 5E method. The teacher candidates were supplied some data-collection means, which would enable the researchers to understand their beliefs about the 5E method at the end of the semester. And the comments by the 6 randomly-chosen teacher candidates about the method were taken. The items of the data-collection tool, which had been supplied to the pre-school teacher candidates, were assessed by using an SPSS statistics program and the frequencies of these items were calculated. Moreover, the beliefs of the teacher candidates about the 5E method were analyzed qualitatively. Thus, the pre-school teacher candidates’ beliefs about the 5E method were aimed to detect. Moreover, the pre-school teacher candidates’ beliefs about the 5E method were analyzed qualitatively. It was seen that most of the teacher candidates expressed quite positive comments about the method. Thus, the attitudes and beliefs of the 3rd graders from the department of pre-school teaching about the 5E method were tried to be detected by enabling these 3rd graders to create and to present the scientific experiments by using the 5E method, and their skills to search and to question.

Keywords: