Nature of Science Learning Design for Elementary School Students
Nury Yuniasih(a*), Ari Widodo(b)

(a) Elementary School Teacher Education Study Program, Universitas Kanjuruhan Malang, 48 Sudanco Supriadi Street Malang 65148 Indonesia
*nuryyuniasih[at]unikama.ac.id
(b) Faculty of Math and Science Education, Indonesia University of Education

Abstract

This study aims to describe the increased understanding of Nature of Science students after the application of the Nature of Science learning design. This study uses a pre-experimental research with a one-group pretest-posttest design research design. The number of samples in this study were 29 students. The research instrument used in this study was in the form of students NOS understanding questionnaire. The results showed that the level of understanding of NOS students got a percentage of 78% means that with this percentage students understanding of NOS is included in both criteria. And the results of the study also showed a significance value of 0,000 <0.05 then H0 was rejected and H1 was accepted so that it could be concluded that there were significant differences between students NOS understanding before and after learning by using the NOS learning design. In accordance with these results it can be concluded, the teaching of NOS in Elementary Schools can be done effectively through the use of appropriate learning designs, so as to improve students NOS understanding.

Keywords: Nature of Science, NoS Learning Design, Students Understanding of NoS

Topic: Material Science