THE EFFECT OF PROBLEM SOLVING AND LEARNING MOTIVATION ON SOCIAL STUDIES LEARNING OUTCOMES AT SDN KEBAYUNAN

Abstract

In general, the breadth of social studies material in elementary schools has an impact on students who are less
motivated to learn. The teaching method used by the teacher so far is still dominant using the lecture method. This
has the influence of students' understanding of the material and student learning outcomes are inadequate. Social
studies learning objectives at the elementary level are expected that students are able to have honest, disciplined,
responsible, polite, caring, and confident behavior in interacting with family, friends, teachers, and the community as
well as love for the motherland. One of the efforts that can be made to make Social Studies learning interesting and
able to motivate students during a pandemic is to apply an problem solving integrated thematic-basedThrough this
learning, students are guided to solve a problem in a learning process that integrates several integrated thematic
materials. Teachers and students carry out Learning From Home (BDR) assisted Google Meet with a series of
materials for daily activities that can be directly applied by students in their environment. This research is a
quantitative research with the type of experimental research and elementary school student respondents. The results
showed that there was an influence of problem solving integrated thematic-based and student learning motivation on
student learning outcomes in social studies learning. Learning characteristics are developed to contain material from
several subjects at once which are packaged in everyday life situations in a theme.