Developing Museum Education Activities for the Social Studies Course and Evaluation of Their Effects on the Academic Success of Students

Our main goal in our study was to enable students to take an active role in teaching social studies. With the work done in the process, it was tried to raise awareness about museums and to explain how valuable museums are for a new perspective on education and most importantly for the social studies course. In our study, a 2X2 split-plot mixed design was used. In the quantitative part of the study, dependent and independent variable measurements were made on the experimental and control groups. In the qualitative part, semistructured interview technique was applied. The participants of the research were carried out with 50 people in a public school in the center of Gaziantep in the 2020-2021 academic year. The quantitative data of the research were analyzed with the SPSS 22.00 program. Qualitative data were evaluated by descriptive analysis method. In our study, which was prepared on the basis of the achievement "discuss the contributions of the scholars who grew up in the Turkish-Islamic civilization to the scientific development process"; One week before the application, pre-tests were made to the experimental and control groups, and then the teaching activity was applied in the classroom by adhering to the curriculum. In addition, a museum tour activity was carried out with the experimental group. Afterwards, the post-test was applied to both groups. In the last stage of the research, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 8 students. As a result of the research, it was determined that museum education, which is one of the out-of-school learning environments for the social studies course, improved the course success level of the students in the experimental group. [For the full proceedings, see ED631133.]