Approaches and attitudes based on active participation of
the students in the process of science education take
place in curricular of many countries. The main purpose
of new science curriculum is to train individuals as science
literate citizens. Science literacy consists of developing
the skills of scientific thinking, researching, questioning,
critical thinking and problem solving of individuals and
making them lifelong learners (NRC, 1996; MNE, 2006).
It is expected of individuals to realize the individual and
social problems they encounter in their living environments.
They should identify them and find solutions to
them. The basis of learning to solve a problem is learning
to gain scientific process skills.
Current science education reforms and standards have
identified both basic and integrated science process
skills. The basic process skills are observing, classifying