Children in need of protection and learning about the soil: A soil education project with children in Turkey

The objective of this study is to introduce the results of a project entitled We are learning about the soil with Tipitop and his friends 2. This project aimed to provide education for 7-13 year old children who are in need of protection, in order to introduce them to the concepts of soil and erosion. The research findings demonstrated that the soil-related knowledge scores (relating to the characteristics of soil, its benefits, living beings on and under the soil, their functions, soil protection and erosion) attained by children in the experimental group of the project increased by a statistically significant amount compared to those of the children in the control group. (c) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license.