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Introduction Social studies can provide useful results to be obtained in education and training in order to keep in touch school and lessons from everyday life by moving some current events into classes. It is social studies lessons that the most intertwined with topical issues one of the lessons. Understanding of children the necessity of being aware of current events is important to be trained for the purposes of social studies as an informed citizen (Gedik, 2008). Current events provide that students' knowledge learned in school to make connections between real life, their acquired knowledge practise in real life problems and follow new developments in the area and country they live (Erden, u.d). Looking at researches made on the use of newspaper, impact on academic achievement (Uygur ve Yelken, 2010; Ünlüer, 2008) the purpose and course relationship (Deveci, 2005; Kabapınar ve Baysal, 2004; Munck, 2007) news analysis (Kee, Ibrahim and Mustaffa, 2010) is in the form and hasn’t been found a research which discusses the case of newspaper articles in the social studies book.For this reason, it is important that newspapers, magazines and internet news allowing the transfer of current events to what extent is existed in curriculum. Purpose It is important that teachers and students use as the primary source and they follow in textbooks how is existed, issues related to the news how much space is given, which reports more emphasis and their update status and number in social studies. Therefore, in this study, it is aimed to determine newspapers, internet and magazine news of status published by the Ministry of Education and private publishing houses in primary education 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grade social studies textbooks. Method In this study was used “Document Analysis” technique which is one of the qualitative data collection methods. İnductive analysis method was used for data analysis. Population and Sample In this study, it is examined both the latest edition of Ministry of Education and private publishing houses in primary education 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grade Social Studies teacher's book (2013-2014). Data Collection Process Social studies teacher guide books that indicated within the scope of the study were examined, findings related to newspapers and internet news that put textbooks taking from newspapers and magazines such as periodical publications were presented in tables by determining and making comparisons on the basis of the unit.Newspaper articles in social studies bookswere presented in the form of newspaper clippings and text cut and pasted from newspapers to textbooks. In addition, magazine news is in the form of news article parts cut from magazines glued to textbooks. Internet news are given exactly in the form of printed out and glued appears of computer screen. Some of the data obtained from the research was analyzed at the data gathering phase periodically, after that following the completion of activities was analyzed relationship with each other and consistency of data again analyzed. Researchers examined 20% of research data independently and then compare the analyzes were made. As a result of the comparison determined analysis to be consistent with each other, in the identification of themes has been reached consensus among researchers. In order to support the comments made by researchers and to reflect news contentwere used excerpts from the document text. (Fig. 1: p. 259) Findings Despite of the use 41 news at 4th grade in publishing ministry of education, consist 33 of this newspaper, 1 of this news magazines and 7 of this internet. While in total 33 news are existed in private publishing, consist 32 of this newspaper, 1 of this internet but news magazines are not existed. Despite of the use 83 news at 5th grade in publishing ministry of education, consist 51 of this newspaper, 28 of this internet and 4 of this news magazines. While in total 34 news are existed in private publi

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