An Exemplary Application Process for Teaching Universal Values to Students: Activity-Based Learning

This study was conducted to design an activity-based learning process to provide students with universal values. The study also aimed to provide students with universal values through this learning process. The study used action research, one of the qualitative research designs. The study group of this study consisted of a total of 12 students studying in the 7th grade in the fall semester of the 2023-2024 academic year in Tokat, Turkey. The activity-based learning process was continued in the Science course for 16 weeks (64 lesson hours) and 22 activities were carried out with the students during the process. One of the researchers took on the role of researcher and implementer during the study. The data of the study were collected with the word association test and semi-structured interview forms. Content analysis was used in the analysis of the data. When the responses of the students to the word association test were examined at the end of the study, it was seen that the most repeated words were love, respect, family and friend. The study also reached the conclusions that the students learned universal values and associated universal values with the activities carried out in the process. Suggestions have been made that other researchers who will conduct studies on the subject can use the activities developed within the scope of this study to provide values education and that the activities developed within the scope of the study can be adapted to other subjects, units or courses to provide values education to students.