PENGARUH MEDIA EXPLOSION BOX TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KRITIS SISWA PADA MATA PELAJARAN IPS KELAS V MIN 5 LABUHANBATU

Abstract

The research that has been carried out is entitled "THE INFLUENCE OF MEDIA EXPLOSION BOX ON STUDENTS' CRITICAL THINKING ABILITIES IN THE SUBJECT OF Social Sciences CLASS V MIN 5 LABUHANBATU" which is motivated by the fact that students' critical thinking abilities in Social Sciences subjects are quite worrying because students are less interested and consider science lessons Social Knowledge is a boring and unpleasant subject, and activities that take place in face-to-face classes are limited to listening and lecturing only. In fact, the curriculum demands that the skills to be achieved are high-level thinking such as conducting analysis.Explosion box is a learning media in the form of a cube shaped surprise box, which contains games, games and learning materials which are arranged in each layout to attract student attention in learning and improve students critical thinking skills in social studies subject.The research methodology uses a quasi-experimental design approach with a control class and an experimental class. The research population is MIN 5 LABUHANBATU students with a sample size of 33 control group students and 33 experimental group students. The research aims to determine the effect of students' critical thinking abilities who are taught using Explosion Box media with students who are not taught using Explosion Box media. Based on research conducted in class V MIN 5 LABUHANBATU, it shows that there is a significant influence from the application of Explosion Box media on students' critical thinking abilities in social studies subjects. This can be seen based on the average of students' critical thinking abilities using Explosion Box media, namely 87.27. Meanwhile, the average critical thinking ability of students without using Explosion Box media is 72.64. Based on the results of the t test which was obtained in 2017 > 1692.