摘要：This research has been done in order to determine and to compare the misconceptions of the science majors and nonscience majors prospective teachers in the topics of energy and energy resources. For this aim, a questionnaire-test has been applied to 210 prospective teachers in the first-year the undergraduate programs at the Departments of Elementary Education and Turkish Language Teaching in Pamukkale University in Denizli in Turkey. The results of the findings indicated that two groups of prospective teachers have both similar misconceptions about energy and energy sources. It is obvious that prospective science teachers have higher rates than non-majors prospective teachers in some basic misconceptions. For example, while non-majors prospective teachers have 13% rate in making Plants obtain energy from worms and insects misconceptions, that misconceptions is 34% for prospective science teachers.
