Improving Students’ Scientific Skills, Cognitive Learning Outcomes, and Learning Interest in Natural Science in Class IV by Using Brain Based Learning Approach with Science Kit at SD Negeri 34 Kuranji Padang
This classroom action research was motivated by the students’ low scientific skills, cognitivelearning outcomes and learning interest in natural science. One of the reasons is the lack of teachers’ abilityin choosing appropriate learning approach and using of KIT or learning science equipments in natural sciencelearning process. Thus, the implementation of Brain Based Learning approach with science KIT is one of theways to solve this problem. The objective of this research is to describe the improvement of the students’scientific skills, cognitive learning outcomes, and learning interest in natural science at class IV SDN 34Kuranji Padang by using Brain Based Learning approach with science KIT. This Classroom Action Researchwas conducted in two cycles. Students’ learning outcomes test and learning interest questionnaire werecarried out at the end of the cycle. The subjects of this research were 19 fourth grade students in SDN 34Kuranji Padang. The instruments of this research were the observation sheets of students’ scientific skills andteachers’ activities, the test sheets of students’ cognitive learning outcomes and the questionnaire sheets ofstudent’ learning interest. The results showed that the percentage of students’ scientific skills improvementfrom the first cycle to the second cycle for observing indicator from 44.73% into 81.57%, 55.26% for askingquestion indicator into 78.94%, 55.25% for communicating indicator into 84.20%, and 49.99% fortrying/experimenting indicator into 86.84%. In addition, the students’ learning outcome in cycle one was57.89% improved into 89.47% in the second cycle regarding its accomplishment percentage. Meanwhile, thestudents’ learning interest in cycle one was 59.10% improved into 81.51% in the second cycle regarding itsaccomplishment percentage. It indicated that there was a significant improvement of students’ scientificskills, cognitive learning outcomes and learning interest in natural science class IV by using Brain BasedLearning approach with science KIT.