Abstract:
The main purpose of education is to provide students how to use acquired knowledge in their lives. For this reason the use of school science in students' everyday life should be discussed. Association levels of students' everyday life events about sound unit with science and technology knowledge is determined in this paper. 8th grade students (N=100) which are study in various schools in the province of Trabzon were asked to explain the 18 everyday life events with sound knowledge. Students' explanations were analyzed by using the codes true, partly true, false and empty. Then 6 students were interviewed about their levels of association in a semi-structured way. Most and least associations about sound knowledge with everyday life events were determined. It has been noticed that students' association levels of daily life events with sound knowledge are low. It has been found that students focus on the placement exams at the end of each academic year and they forget their knowledge about that academic year after the exam. In addition, some teachers use few daily life examples during the lessons and it is thought that this situation affects the levels of association. Teachers should enhance daily life examples about sound unit during lessons
