摘要：The aim of this study is to determine history of science related stories known by
candidate science teachers and their opinions about educational values of those
stories. The research is a descriptive study. Data was collected by open ended
questions. In the study, 63 teacher candidates from 3th grade which were in the
department of science education in X university took part. Content analysis was
used. It was seen that the candidate teachers’ stories related to the history of
science consisted of the main examples and the stories that were told most
frequently were "Newton's apple" and "Archimedes' bath story”. Although the
level of knowledge about the stories related to the history of science was not
sufficient, their awareness of educational value of stories were adequate. Candidate
teachers indicated that they would use stories for encouragement, to tell scientific
process and scientists’ live as well as to take attention and to provide motivation at
lessons.
关键词：history of science; story; candidate teacher; teacher sufficiency; science
education
