Abstract:
This study was aimed to determine pre-service
teachers’ views about science centers and museums, as outof-the-school learning environments, through case study.
For that purpose, the pre-service teachers were provided to
participate in out-of-the-school learning environments
which were designed in a structured way, and their attitudes and views were studied at the end of the process. The
results showed that they held positive views with regard to
the activities related to science centers and museums.
Besides, pre-service teachers’ attitude averages were
positive both in overall evaluation and under the theme of
attitudes toward science and technology course. As positive
views they said that activities were visual, permanent
knowledge formed in consequence of the activities, they
would be able to use the knowledge they had obtained in
daily life, they had the opportunity to apply one-to-one, and
that they were able to acquire new knowledge. On the other
hand, the fact that the activities were too much in number,
some of them took much time, and participants were too
many was reported as the disadvantage.
