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    PRESERVICE SCIENCE TEACHERS' LEVELS OF AWARENESS ABOUT TOPICS, UNITS AND CONCEPTS IN PRIMARY SCIENCE CURRICULUM
    (Kastamonu Üniversitesi, 2007) Demir, Yaşar; Sipahi, Selami; Kahraman, Sakıp; Yalçın, Mehmet
    The propose of the study is to explore preservice science teachers' levels of awareness about topics, units and concepts in primary science curriculum and reveal their levels of being ready the teacher profession. The study was carried out in second semester of 2005-2006 academic year. The sample for the study was composed of 60 undergraduate students selected randomly and 15 student for each grade ranging grade one to grade four at the Department of Primary Science Education of Kazım Karabekir Education Faculty, Ataturk University. To explore preservise science teachers' levels of awareness about topics, units and concepts in primary science curriculum, it was asked the students to choose or write down about topics, units and concepts existing in primary science curriculum to the lists prepared by researchers. In addition, it was asked the participants to write the way they are aware of being conscious about it and how they are aware about it. The findings from the analysis of the student written materials suggest that participants' level of awareness about topics, units and concepts in primary science curriculum are quite low. To reveal the possible difference among the variety of grades with regard to the level of awareness, Variance Analysis ANOVA was conducted. The statistical results indicated that there is not statistically significant difference among the grades according to their level of awareness. The findings suggest that although the teacher profession practices in schools had contributed the final year students' levels of awareness, the contribution was not as much as leading to create any difference statistically significant when compared with other three grades.