THE EFFECT OF GEMS PROGRAM ON THE BASIC SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS AND ATTITUDES OF 6TH GRADE STUDENTS IN THE FORCE AND MOTION UNIT

ACCORDING TO SCAS RESULTS; WHEN THE POST- TEST ATTITUDE SCORES OF THE EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS WERE EXAMINED AFTER THE APPLICATION, THE ATTITUDES OF THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP STUDENTS TOWARDS THE ACTIVITIES DONE IN THE SCIENCE COURSE WERE MORE POSITIVE IN THE 1-MONTH PERIOD FROM THE PRE-TEST TO THE LAST TEST THANKS TO THE GEMS ACTIVITIES. Nationwide's tested in thousands of class GEMS programs, teachers more guides and manuals also developed 70 for, students offer learning experience and a wide range of learning benefits until high school seniors from pre-school 9.In addition to this, training courses, trainers, and seminars including educators and families are being revised continuously by an international communication network 10. According to the American Association of Advancing Science (A.A.A.S.), the basic science process skills are classification, measuring, making observations, using numbers, saving data, making predictions, and using space/time relationships20,21 When students begin to like mathematics and science they lay the first foundations of scientific thought through the fun activities of the GEMS Programme. GEMS subjects are prepared according to the usage of the basic science process skills of students 22 In the GEMS activities, students can 23,24 * observe with all senses and conclude according to observations. * associate new situations and knowledge with old experiences. * compare events and objects according to similarities and the differences in their qualitative and quantitative properties. * organize, classify, and group objects and knowledge. * be an active participant by touching, drawing, playing, questioning, communicating, sharing in the process. * explore by playing games and experimenting. * make intelligent predictions about the outcomes of events. * gain basic science process skills such as applying new situations and drawing conclusions by interpreting information and methods.