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WOS: 000406441000003 The aim of this research is to introduce an interdisciplinary project about air pollution that is organized and applied for Community Service Practice Course. In order to organize this project 32 pre-service primary school teachers and 120 students' awareness toward air pollution (4th grade) have been determined through The Air Pollution Awareness Questionnaire. The results obtained from the needs analysis indicate that learning environments need to be designed that focus on fundamental concepts, causes-effects, future situation and precautions in order to increase air pollution awareness. To achieve an interdisciplinary approach, a two stage learning environment has been designed by relating these focus points with Turkish, Social Studies, Science, Mathematics and Public Administration disciplines respectively. These two stages are preparing the discipline-based course plans and materials; and carrying out the interdisciplinary plans with students by pre-service teachers. In this article, the design, development and implementation process of this learning environment are presented in detail. As a result of this research, a roadmap for how to deal with the Community Service Practices Course in an interdisciplinary manner has been established. |
