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Case study, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the research. The data sources of the research consist of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade Life science textbooks taught in Turkey in 2021-2022. The research used 'content analysis'to provide a detailed description based on the purpose of the study. The illustrations in the life science textbook of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade are coded separately with regard to the types of identity in the literature. Categories and themes were the result of the combination of the codes. In life science textbooks, only illustrations that could have a connection with identity construction have been analysed. As a result of the research, it has been determined that the illustrations for the collective identity are prominently included in the Life Science textbooks. In the theme of collective identity, there are illustrations emphasizing national, social and religious identity. For digital identity and universal identity topics, there are a limited number of illustrations.  \nKeywords: Identity construction, Identity, Life science textbook, Illustrations  \n* Research Assistant, Department of Social Studies, Faculty of Education, Ahi Evran University, Kırşehir, [Turkey. Email: h.mert@ahievran.edu.tr](Turkey. Email: h.mert@ahievran.edu.tr)  \n** Professor, Department of Social Studies, Faculty of Education, Ahi Evran University, Kırşehir, Turkey. [Email: zaferkus@gmail.com](Email: zaferkus@gmail.com)  \nIntroduction  \nAlthough the concept of identity has a long history, it only began to be discussed and studied as a result of modernity in the 20th century. Scholars of identity studies indifferent disciplines focus on different aspects of identity. Some study the structure of identity, defining different aspects such as different cultural, religious and gender identities, while others focus on how individuals arrive at the identity structure that underlies their constant change (Waltzlawik, 2012) . In recent years, the concept of'identity building' has attracted attention, particularly as a result of efforts by a particular group, state or government to give individuals a particular identity.  \nWhat is identity? In the modern scientific literature, the concept of \"identity\" is used with a wide variety of qualities. Mental, ethnic, ideological, class, state, power, defence, cultural and sexual identities, etc. can be mentioned. According to Gutorov (2015), the basic principle of an identity (individual or group identity) is the relationship between We and I, not I and I. While expressing the concept of identity, Bauman (2017, p. 30) states that it was created by people and they were persuaded to this situation (fiction) with the establishment of modern states. Schools are the places where identity is most clearly built after the family. Therefore, in recent years, educational studies have also focused on studies on identity and identity building.  \nApproaches to identity building continued as approaches based on identity interactions with postmodernism, globalization, knowledge-power, individualsociety/state, religion, ethnicity, etc. However, modernism is one of the most discussed approaches, based on the assumption that the notion of identity, whose relationality is generally accepted, is a product of modernism (Dalbay & Avcı, 2018) . Modernity has started to build new identities with the ideas it produces. Therefore, while individuals had innate identities before the French Revolution, they had identities created with the French Revolution, in other words, acquired later (Karpat,2019, p. 58) . The concept of identity may differ in direct relation to the daily lives of individuals. 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