Abstract:

This study is aimed at determining the perceptions of primary school 4th grade students towards environmental concepts. The study was conducted with 69 primary school students (35 girls and 34 boys) who are studying in a public school. Working in the screening model is an imaginary work. In this study, the data collection process was used by the Word Relationship Test (KIT). The concepts “environment”, “air pollution”, “water pollution”, “ground pollution”, “luck pollution”, “waste” and “reconversion” are defined as keywords in relation to the environment. The answers that students give to each keyword are listed and the frequency of these answers and the ratio of relevance of the keywords are determined. The study finds that students mostly associate the concept of the environment with the tree, nature and flowers.  The concept of water pollution is associated with the concept of pollution, waste and waste and air pollution with the concept of smoke, gas and factory and soil pollution, waste, grass and soil and noise pollution with the concept of sound, music and crying/writing.  Students see the concept of recycling being linked to waste, paper and glass while they see the concept of waste being linked to the concept of waste, paper and battery.  The student’s attention is attracted as a common answer to all the keywords. The study also concluded that the students were able to establish the most "reversion" and "waste" relationship among the given keywords, and that the "bullying pollution" could be the least associated with other keywords.