Investigation Of Science Teacher Candidates Skills in Associating Biomimicry Examples With Physics Concepts And Daily Life

Abstract

In this research, it was aimed to get the opinions of teacher candidates about biomimicry examples and to determine their ability to relate this subject to physics concepts and daily life. The research was conducted with 20 teacher candidates studying in the 3rd grade of science teaching at a state university in the fall semester of the 2021-2022 academic year. In the study, the phenomenology method, which is a pattern of qualitative research, was used. A semi-structured interview form was prepared in order to learn teacher candidates skills in associating biomimicry examples with physics concepts and daily life. In this form consisting from fifteen questions, open-ended questions were included. The answers given to the questions were categorized and analyzed by determining the codes. At the end of the study, it was found that the teacher candidates skills of designing or developing a new product inspired by the biomimicry samples selected in the research and associating biomimicry samples with physics concepts were at a sufficient level.