There is growing interest in Turkey in trying to find out ways in which ICT can be
used best in education. This interest is arising not only because of the natural dissemination of
ICT in every aspect of life but also governmental initiatives such as FATIH project (a
multimillion dollar ICT infrastructure project for schools in Turkey). In line with this trend
there is also research interest. However, this research interest is only partially reflected for the
relationship between ICT and social studies. What is missing is that there is very little casual
empirical data to examine the effect of ICT on pupils’ achievement and attitudes towards
social studies education in Turkey. In order to test the expected positive results of integrating
ICT into social studies teaching a unit that was eligible to use ICT tools were chosen by the
researchers for the experimental research mentioned in detail in the method section. The unit
that was chosen from social studies curriculum for the experimental study was ‘The Turks on
the Silk Road