Evaluation of the effectiveness of playing cards based teaching method In Integrated geography education

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of playing cards in geography education. The statistical population of this study consisted of all male students in the fifth grade of primary school in Najaf Abad who were studying in the academic year 1398-1989. To select the statistical sample, one of the 18 boys' elementary schools in the city was randomly selected with two fifth-graders with25 and 27 students, The research method was quasi-experimental in which two pre-test students from grades 1 through 10 of fifth grade social studies textbooks were recruited. Statistical analysis showed no significant difference between the scores of the two classes. Therefore, one class was randomly selected as the experimental group and the other as the control group. Then, during three sessions, the experimental group played cards with the neighbors of Iran and the control group was taught the same content in the traditional way. At the end of the two groups, the same post-test was taken based on the activities and applications of the book. The obtained data were analyzed using t-test in SPSS software. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the two groups. Therefore, it can be said that the students who were trained according to the countries' playing cards method performed better than the students who were trained in the traditional way.