This finding demonstrates parallelism with the views of prospective teachers and elementary students on concept
cartoons in the study of Keogh and Naylor (2000) titled “Teacher and Learning in Science Using ConceptCartoons:
Why Dennis Wants to Stay in at Playtime?” Keogh and Naylor emphasize especially the positive effects of the use
of concept cartoons in their studies. The views of teachers participating in the study are as follows: “They are really
very helpful in revealing children’s views; they are very successful to help children explain their own views
especially the children who refrain from explaining their own views, it is observed that the children participate in
lessons actively and that they are highly-motivated.” Similarly, it also shows parallelism with the finding of
“increasing interest in lessons” obtained in Özalp’s (2006) study and with the findings that the cartoons affect
learning positively and provide motivation, and make the lesson more interesting in Cengizhan’s (2011) research.
Again similarly, (Oluk and Özalp, 2007) in their studies concluded that concept cartoons increased the interest of
students in science courses and that they made their learning easier and that they made the lessons more
entertaining. This judgment was also supported by student feedbacks: “To tell you the truth, I usually do not like
science courses but this time it was quite fine...”, “I liked the lesson very much with the contributions of cartoons,
they make the boring lesson more entertaining and the pictures were funny…”, “I started to like this”, “This is a
different method and we applied this for the first time; it was really so entertaining and we never got bored of the
lesson and it was really great pleasure for me to work with my friends…