Abstract:

The aim of this research is to study the impact of the Science Education Programme, which contains events in the out-of-school learning environments, on children’s scientific process skills. In the research group of the study in the semi-experimental scheme of the previous test-final test-permanence test, the 2015-2016 educational year, in the province of Ankara, the Ministry of National Education continued to three different independent kindergartens, the ages ranging from 60 to 72 months, included 80 children. In the pre-school period, in order to reveal the impact on the scientific process skills of the scientific activities carried out in non-school learning environments such as the science center, the museum of nature history, the aquarium, the planetaryum, the veterinary anatomy museum, the school garden, the researchers have prepared the Science Education Program containing events in non-school learning environments, which comprise two sections, including the scientific activities in the classroom and non-school learning environments. Before the implementation of the program, pre-test assessments were made, it was found that the levels of the scientific process skills of the groups were similar. Scientific activities carried out in both classroom and non-school learning environments of the experiment group-1de program, experiment group-2de only classroom scientific activities were applied for seven weeks. In the control group, the teacher continued the implementation of the 2013 Pre-School Education Programme activities by the Ministry of National Education. The data was obtained through the Child-Parent Personal Information Form created by the National (2017) and the Science Process Skills Observation Form and the Pre-School Children's Scientific Process Skills Assessment Form. The data analysis used frequency, average, standard deviation, fragility and pressure ratio, Kruskal Wallis Test, Wilcoxon Signed sequence test, and Mann-Whitney U Test. The research finds that the program supports children’s scientific process skills in a positive direction.

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