THE EFFECT OF IB PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAMME ON CHILDREN’S SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS THAT ARE ATTENDING TO THE PRESCHOOL 

Fatma Nur Karataş¹, Mehmet Nur Tuğluk^2
1PRESCHOOL TEACHER & MASTER STUDENT, YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Turkey.
fnur.karatas@gmail.com
²ASSISTANT PROFESSOR  & ADVISOR, YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Turkey.
mntugluk@yildiz.edu.tr

 

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of Primary Years Program (PYP) on children’s Science Process Skills (SPS) in early childhood education. IB PYP makes the classrooms student-centered, actively learning and collaboratively working by using its own inquiry planners. The inquiry planners enable students to understand the nature of life. Since the PYP examines nature and its effects on how the World works through its planners, the learning environment is more challenging, open-ended, unstructured, progressive and globally. While doing it, the program gets benefits from science process skills of students. By using some scientific skills during the activities, the learners become more caring, active, emphatic, respectful, open-minded and communicative individuals toward social and global events. Students in IB schools behave like scientists to understand the world they live in it. In that reason, this study will search on the effect of PYP on SPS and whether PYP effects the children’s scientific skills or not by applying pre and post tests two different schools. While one of the schools is implementing IB PYP, the other one is not.

Keywords: ib, pyp, science process skills, early childhood education.