Analysis of the Achievements in the Classroom (6) Social Studies Course Curriculum According to the Project Lily Pad Game

The Lily Pad Project is a serious geographical game developed in the summer of 2018 with the aim of teaching spatial thinking in terms of disaster resistance. The game takes place in Dickinson, Texas, where Hurricane Harvey continued to exist on August 30, 2017. The game was developed by integrating Geographical Information Systems (GIS) obtained by navigation and data transfer from the open street map. The elevation model and flood data were used to model the city and redesign the game with almost real-life accuracy. The importance of disaster resilience and disaster education is once again made felt by the natural disasters experienced in our country and around the world, global climate change disasters in today's conditions. The aim of this research is 6. the classroom social studies course is the analysis of the achievements in the curriculum according to the Project Lily Pad game. The next stage after determining these achievements is to teach students about the achievements that can be integrated into this geographical game using this method. Qualitative research methods were used in this study on the grounds that they are appropriate to the nature of the research. While document analysis is performed as a data collection tool, data analysis is patterned with document analysis. When looking at the Social Studies course curriculum, it was determined that 1 acquisition from the field of culture and heritage learning, 4 acquisitions from the field of people, places and environments learning, and 1 acquisition from the field of production, distribution and consumption learning can be taught effectively at an upper cognitive level with Project Lily Pad.