Abstract:

Our education and political system are accustomed to both scientific and technological, as well as the social aspects of the changes made in order to adapt to the transformations in the world. The beginning of a significant change in the academic year 2005-2006 has established in Turkish Education System. The basis of this change is to be implement the extensive preparations in the curriculum. Survey method is used in this research which aims to put forth elementary school candidate teachers’ opinions about 4th and 5th grade social science course activities for consideration. Research is administered at the Department of Elementary School Education with elementary school candidate teachers at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. "Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal Test" and “Scale for the Eligibility of Activities for Critical Thinking” developed by Semiz (2011) are used to gather data. Analysis of the data revealed that candidate teachers’ assessed the eligibility level of activities in 4th and 5th graders’ course books as moderate. Units of “I Learn My Past” in 4th graders’ and “Lets Recognize Our Region” in 5th graders’ course books are assessed more eligible for critical thinking than others.

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