COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS AND THEIR PROJECTS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇEP 5519 ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS AND THEIR PROJECTS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Environmental Education Non-Thesis

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR RAZIYE ÇAKICIOĞLU OBAN

Offered to

Environmental Education Non-Thesis

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to make students to recognize the importance of designing and applying experiments and projects in science education and to improve the skills of students to design, implement, and evaluate experiments and projects.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand the importance of projects in environmental education,
2   Learn methods of Project preparation and experiment design and associate them with the curriculum,
3   Prepare a acceptable scientific project,
4   Apply required experimental processes for the project,
5   Obtain results and prepare the Project report.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Course definitions and required reading list
2 Project based learning approach in environmental education
3 Project and curriculum associations
4 Project development steps
5 Examining project examples
6 Setting goals and naming the project
7 Defining required experimental processes
8 Midterm exam
9 Experimental data collection processes
10 Experimental data collection processes
11 Discussion and reaching conclusion processes
12 Discussion and reaching conclusion processes
13 Preparing the project reports
14 Students presentations and their evaluations
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Korkmaz, H. ve Kaptan, F. (2001). Fen Eğitiminde Proje Tabanlı Öğrenme Yaklaşımı. Hacettepe Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 16-17:193-200

Uzun, N., Sağlam, N., VarnacıUzun, F. (2008): Yeşil Sınıf Modeline Dayalı Uygulamalı Çevre Eğitimi Projesinin Çevre Bilinci ve Kalıcılığına Etkisi, Ege Eğitim Dergisi 2008 (9) 1: 59-74.

Brisk, M.A. (2000). Çevre dostu 1001 proje, öğrenciler için uygulamalı çevrecilik eğitimi, (Çev: Seniha Yavaş vd.), Istanbul: Beyaz Yayınları: 109.

Uzun, N. (2006). Altındağ Ilçesi'nde çevre eğitimi: "yeşil sınıf" modeli, Ankara Il Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğü Yayın Organı "Çevre Sayısı", 8 (49), 14-15.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Obtain results and prepare the Project report.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

halil.aydin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Theoretical 13 3 39
Pre Class Self Study 13 4 52
Midterm Preparation 1 20 20
Final Preparation 1 20 20
Paper Preparation 2 15 30
Research Presentation 2 15 30
Final Exam 1 1 1
Midterm Exam 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 195

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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