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Environmental education is defined as raising self-sacrificing people with an awareness of all kinds of problems and solutions to create a more sustainable environment. Environmental literacy is essential in environmental education. The concept of environmental literacy means having a good education in the field of the environment and a high level of knowledge about the environment. This research is a descriptive study examining the environmental literacy levels and environmental pollution images of 7th grade pupils in primary education. The study was conducted with 76 pupils in four classes of a public secondary school in the city of Ankara in the 2018-2019 academic year. 35 (46.1%) female and 41 (53.9%) male pupils participated in the study. The Environmental Literacy Scale, the Environmental Sensitivity Scale, the Environmental Behaviour Scale, and the Cognitive Skills Interview Form developed by Sontay, Gökdere, and Usta (2015) were used in the study. In addition, the pupils were asked to draw environmental pollution themed pictures in order to explore their images of environmental pollution. The drawing method was used to reveal the pupils' perceptions about environmental pollution. [This study was presented at the 4th International GAP Conference on Social Sciences, 29 November-1 December, Sanliurfa, 2019.]

While the idea of using newspapers in education dates back to as early as the 1890's. It has been significantly promoted in various circles since the first half of the 20th century. Newspapers are considered to be important learning materials as they focus on current affairs, address a wide range of audiences, and provide students with a learning environment other than the classroom setting. Increasing numbers of studies highlight the effectiveness of it. The present study investigates the effects of the use of news items from newspapers as learning materials in bioethics education. The internet archives of the newspapers with the highest circulation in the national press were screened for news items on surrogacy. One was selected for the process of bioethics education. The study was implemented with a total of 112 pupils in their tenth year at a public vocational secondary school of health services in Ankara. The bioethics education model developed by [13] was used in the study. At the end of the implementation, semi-structured interviews were held with pupils in order to identify their opinions on the processes of bioethics education and the use of news in the classroom.