In the first session, This module was aimed at the students ’ learning of the effects of heat on particles formed matter and, in the second session, the students’ learning of the correlation between heat transfer in matters and collision of molecules. Module preparation consisted of two sessions; each session included a scenario and concept cartoons about the solving of problem in that scenario. The scenario, included in the first session, was presented as follows.
On a hot summer morning, Özge, with her mother and father, went by train to visit her aunt in Ankara. Özge was very happy about taking a journey with her family. In the course of the journey, Özge decided to drink tea with her mother. However, since the weather was very hot, Özge added cold water to her tea. Özge and her mother drank the tea with a cube of sugar. Both of them, at the same time, put in a cube of sugar and waited without stirring. After a while, Özge realized that the sugar, in her mother’s tea, had dissolved quicker 378 Didem İnel and Ali Gü nay Balım / Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 93 ( 2013 ) 376 – 380 and she was surprised by this event. Despite putting in a cube sugar to their tea at the same time, she did not know why a cube sugar had dissolved quicker in her mother’s tea.
Afterwards, this scenario was presented to students who were asked to determine problem in the scenario by researching the necessary subjects and existing knowledge. After the students had finished researching the subjects, they started to solve the problem. At this point, the students were presented with the first concept cartoon