Anadolu Öğretmen Dergisi

Yazarlar: Sema TAKMAZ, Miraç YILMAZ

Konular:Eğitim, Eğitim Araştırmaları

DOI:10.35346/aod.728962

Anahtar Kelimeler:Virus,Biology,Health,Curriculum,Secondary education

Özet: For awareness about viruses and in defense against viral diseases, effective of education and for the teaching objectives to be achieved at a high level, the importance of the curriculum applied in schools cannot be denied. In this study, aimed to examine of virus topic, in biology and health curriculums of secondary education. In this context, biology and health lessons curriculums in secondary education, in which the topic of virus is included, has been evaluated in terms of grade level, course hour, content and acquisitions. Research, it was done by document analysis from qualitative methods. As a document, the curriculums of biology and health lessons, which are being implemented by the Ministry of National Education, have been considered and content analysis was done. According to the results obtained, it was determined that the acquisitions amount and duration of viruses in the secondary education biology and health education curriculum is very low. In addition, viruses is processed at the end of the period, which creates disadvantageous situations in learning. With the results of our study, today when viral pandemics are experienced, that have significant effects on human health and life, all high school students receive very superficial information only in the 9th grade regarding viruses. Only In the 11th and 12th grades, students who can take biology lessons, can access some more information about viruses.

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