Abstract
The aim of this study is to determine the preservice elementary teachers’ levels of relating the science knowledge to their daily life and to examine the relation between preservice teachers’ levels of connecting science knowledge that they acquire in science course with their attitudes and scientific literacy. The case study method was employed in the study. The sample of the study comprised 200 second year preservice elementary teachers in KTU Fatih Faculty of education. The data were collected with scientific literacy test, daily life relating test and attitude questionnaire during the Science and Laboratory Application II Lesson. The problem situations were created for boiling, melting, freezing, expansion, excretion, digestion, heat and temperature concepts. The results of the study indicated that the preservice teachers’ levels of relating science knowledge to daily life situations were very low.
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