Kırıkkaya, Esma BuluşBali, G.Bozkurt, Esra2014-09-262014-09-262009Kırıkkaya, E. B., Bali, G., Bozkurt, E. "Thoughts and knowledge of the first grade students at high schools abouth earthquake" International Earthquake Symposium, Kocaeli University, 17-19 Ağustos, (2009).http://kocaeli2009.kocaeli.edu.tr/fullpaper09.pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11486/607In the science and technology courses, informations about earthquake are being given in the last unit of at 8 grades of the primary education. In this research, the thoughts of the first grade students in secondary schools have been examined in seven dimensions. The information in all dimensions has been examined to check if it changes according to gender of the students, earthquake experience and the type of the schools. This resea rch was done in Kocaeli - İzmit in every first grades of the secondary schools in Kocaeli Izmit. The 555 students were chosen by cluster sampling technique from the Anatolian, general and technical high schools. The data collection tool was a Likert type ite ms consisting of three subgroups. Reliability and validity study was repeated, owing to passing time between two studies. A pilot study was done with 390 students except the sampling of this study. As a result of this pilot study some of the items were rem oved from the data collection tool. With the remaining items, Cronbach's alphas for internal consistency were 0.78 Collected data was analyzed with SPSS 15.program. The results have indicated that the gender and the type of the school effects the results b ut the experience of the earthquake doesn‘t effect the earthquake knowledge. In the lights of these information the girls know much more than the boys about the earthquake, and the things to do during and after the earthquake. Moreover the stu dents in Anat olian high schools has much more and true information than the students in technical high schoolsenEarthquake educationScience and technology lessonUnit of natural processesHigh school studentsPresentation