THE EFFECT OF METHODS PROBLEM SOLVING INTEGRATED THEMATIC- BASEDAND LEARNING MOTIVATION ONLEARNING OUTCOMES SOCIAL STUDIES STUDENTS'IN SD DURING PANDEMIC

Abstract

In general, the breadth ofmaterial social studies in elementary schools has an impact on students being less motivated to learn. The learning method carried out by the teacher so far is still dominantly using the lecture method. This gives the effect of student understanding of the material and student learning outcomes are inadequate. The purpose of learning social studies (social studies) at the elementary level is that students are expected to be able to have honest, disciplined, responsible, polite, caring, and confident behavior in interacting with family, friends, teachers, and the community and love the homeland. One of the efforts that can be made to makelearning social studies interesting and able to motivate students during a pandemic is to apply anmethod problem solving integrated thematic-based. Through this learning, students are guided to solve a problem in a learning process that integrates several integrated thematic materials. Teachers and students conduct Learning From Home (BDR) assisted bytechnology Google Meet with a series of daily activity materials 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 students as respondents. Preliminary research results show the influence ofmethod problem solving an integrated thematic-based and student learning motivation simultaneously on student learning outcomes in learning. The learning characteristics developed include material packaged in daily life situations by influencing the practice of values and skills on students in interesting and measurable learning activities