Sosyobilimsel Durum Senaryoları Aracılığıyla Sekizinci Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Çevre ile ilgili Deneyim ve Görüşleri^*

The importance of socioscientific issues is increasing day by day, accordingly, updates are made in the curriculum. Socioscientific issues are indirectly included in the 2005 science-technology teaching curriculum, while 2013 and 2018 are directly involved within the objectives of the science teaching curriculum. The aim of this study is firstly to develop socioscientific issues scenarios related to the environment and secondly to reveal students' experiences and opinions through the developed scenarios. The research method is case study, which is one of the qualitative research methods. The study group of this research consist of 10, 8th grade students studying at a public school. Semi-structured interview form has been used by the researchers as the data collection instrument. The questions related to six different socioscientific case scenarios created in the interview form are included. The data obtained has been analyzed both by using the method of descriptive analysis and content analysis. According to the findings, it was determined that the students' views on socioscientific issues were at a medium level. Also it is determined that the students who have the social media observe the events occurring in their environment. As a result of this, they have higher ability about interpreting on socioscientific issues, reasoning, deciding and critical thinking. Socioscientific case scenarios can be said to be effective not only to reveal students' views but also to encourage thinking about socioscientific issues and increase motivation and learning. Teachers are recommended to create learning environments through which socioscientific scenarios in case students can express their ideas without hesitation.