摘要：History of science gives opportunities to comprehend the developments and methods of scientific thinking. It contributes to train questioning and critical individuals. For this reason, history of science took place in 2005 primary social studies curriculum. Its succesment depends to teachers’ sufficiency about history of science. Because of this, social studies teacher candidates’ knowledge level which is needed to implement the gains of social studies curriculum which are about history of science, have been measured. For this aim, 75 social science candidates who were in their last year in social studies teacher department of an University which placed in Anatolia, took part in the study. A measure that has 5 open-ended questions have been used. At the end of the study, it was seen that teacher candidates have inadequate and false knowledge about the contributions of civilizations to humanity, contributions of Turk-Islam scientist to civilization, contributions of geographic discoveries to modern science. Especially, they are in adequate at telling anecdotes about history of science in social studies lessons.
关键词：history of science ; social studies curriculum ; social studies teacher ; teacher candidates.
