Science teachers’s perceptions of the 2006 Turkish Elementary Science and Technology Curriculum1

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The aim of this study was to reveal the science teachers’ perceptions of the fundamentals of the 2006 Elementary Science and Technology Curriculum and the level of consistency of these perceptions with the content of the curriculum in order to get deeper understanding of the implementation and adoption level of the curriculum. An exploratory qualitative research wasoperated through in-depth interviews with 9 science teachers. To directlydeal with ego-threat, a relatively new technique, game activity, wasdeveloped as the data gathering tool. The findings indicated that althoughteachers spend an effort to implement the curriculum, since they did notexamine it closely, their efforts go in vain.