Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Opinions about Global Warming

Through this research, it has been aimed to determine the perceptions, opinions and ideas of pre-service elementary teachers about global warming which is an environmental problem that threatens the world. this research was applied to 10 pre-service elementary teachers. the data in the research were collected through face-to-face oral interviews. collected qualitative data were analyzed with descriptive analysis technique. according to the results of the research, it was observed that pre-service teachers worried about the possible outcomes of global warming and were not equipped with sufficient information about environmental problems. it was concluded that preservice teachers established the false cause-effect relationship between the environmental problems such as greenhouse effect, ozone layer problem, acid rain.