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This research examines what the environmental concepts and achievements are in the primary school life studies curriculum and aims to explore the change and development of the concept of environment. In the research, document analysis technique as one of the qualitative research methods was used to examine the change and development of the concept of environment in 2009, 2015, 2017 and 2018 Life studies curriculum. Considering the results of the research, the 2009 program included direct and indirect concepts related to the environment such as school, class, friends, family, use of resources, cleaning, living things, natural events, living place, close environment, and traffic. In 2015, 2017 and 2018 programs, common use area, real life-virtual environment – non-governmental organization and recycling, safe area, unsafe area, social media-technology addiction, population growth, urbanization, destruction of forests, solid waste problem, unconscious hunting, technological pollution, endangered creatures, Red Crescent, AFAD, peer pressure, terrorism, migration and sustainability are the concepts which are added to the programs. In this research, when the results of the change and development of the concept of environment in the Life Sciences Curriculum were examined, it was seen that direct and indirect gains related to the environment were included in the 2009 curriculum.It has been determined that recycling materials, safe use of technological tools, gains for living together with people from different cultures in our country have been added to the 2015, 2017 and 2018 programs.

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