Özet:

Turkey is being shaken by the biggest earthquakes of the last century. One of the measures that can be taken against these earthquakes is to create social awareness against earthquakes. The most effective way to create social consciousness is to provide earthquake education in schools. Issues related to earthquake science constitute an important field of earth science. In the content of science courses based on earth science at the primary school level, the place of earthquake education constitutes the main focus of this research. The research was prepared according to the case study model, one of the qualitative research patterns. The data source of the research was the last three academic programs prepared in Turkey (2005, 2013 and 2018) and two textbooks used as fifth grade textbooks (MoNE and Special publication). Descriptive analysis was used in the analysis of the data collected by the document analysis technique. The content design of the teaching programs and the books were examined on the basis of a rubric consisting of five themes: scope design, educational, visual and measurement and evaluation design. It has been determined that the books are insufficient in terms of content due to the shortcomings of the curriculum, and the book belonging to a private publication is partially more competent than the MoNE publication. As a result, considering the importance of the subject for creating social awareness, it has been concluded that the content and scope of the subject contained in the textbooks can be reviewed by experts in the field and made more useful by eliminating deficiencies.

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