Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Balkan Agriculture Congress, Edirne, Türkiye, 8 - 11 Eylül 2014, sa.18, ss.104, (Özet Bildiri)
This study is a part of the project has been run in the Children’s Nursery School and Day Care Home, situated inside the campus of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University in the year of 2013 in Çanakkale city. The main purpose of this project was to educate the children about ecology using the insects and flowers as important tools. With the help of this project, a total of 78 children under the age of 7 years has been educated about the importance of ecology by introducing flowers and insects. Before of this project, most of the children were found to afraid of insects. The majority of children were not aware about the importance of different flowers. Even they didn’t know about the word ‘Ecology’. Moreover, they were scared of insects, and even were not ready to listen about the word ‘Insect’ (‘Böcek’ in Turkish). That is why, such project was in dire needed and later has been conducted there. Through this project, the children were educated about the science of ecology, importance of different flowers and insects, and the differentiation between beneficial and harmful insects by doing different activities like visual presentations, playing games with insect toys, drawing different flowers and insects on their arms and hands using henna, showing short movies related to ecology, flowers and insects, doing insect and flower collections, examine the different parts of insect under microscope and rearing living insects in vials. They were also shown the living beehive and living ant nest into the closed glass jars. According to the obtained results after doing above activities, 90% of the children have got to know about the term ‘Ecology’. A curiosity and interest has been developed among children to learn the names of different insects and flowers, to touch the different stages of insects specially the larval and adult stages with their naked hands, and also learn how to rear, protect and care about the beneficial insects and flowers found in our ecosystem. Finally, it was observed in the lights of this project that the insects and flowers are the most effective tools to introduce the children of nursery schools and day care homes to the ecological sciences.