Paper Title
The Effect of Puzzle Prototypes on Children�s Science Attitudes

Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the effect of puzzle prototypes on fifth and seventh graders� attitudes towards science education. The study group involved a total number of 108 children including fifth (control: 24, experiment: 24) and seventh (control: 30, experiment: 30) graders attending to a randomly selected elementary school amongst the ones located in neighborhoods of Ankara/Turkey characterized by families in middle socio-economic status. In this study, �General Information Form� to collect information about parents and children and �Science Attitude Scale� to find out children�s attitudes towards science were used. While analyzing the data, independent samples t-test was used to identify the mean differences between control and experiment group children�s pretest scores. In order to investigate the effect of puzzle prototypes implementation on children�s attitudes towards Science, two-way ANOVA for repeated measures on one factor was used. As a result, it was found out that puzzle prototypes implementation had a positive effect on fifth and seventh graders� attitudes towards science according to the pretest and posttest mean scores of both the control and experiment group children (η2=0.330, η2=0.417, p<.05). In the light of the findings, it can be suggested that Turkish Ministry of National Education should extend the use of puzzle prototypes which leads to fun and learning at the same time congruent to the existing curriculum. Index Terms� Puzzle Prototypes, Science Subject, Science Attitude.