IMPROVING STUDENTS’ LEARNING ACHIEVEMENTS ON SOCIAL SCIENCE AT THE LESSON OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY BY USING GUIDED DISCOVERY LEARNING AT FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS ON THE FIRST SEMESTER AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Social Science, Education

This study was conducted to discover improvement on students’ learning achievement on social science by using guided learning discovery. It was conveyed as Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject upon this study encompassed 24 of 4th grade students of SDN 1 Bayeun (elementary school), sub district of Rantau Selamat, in the regency of East Aceh. Data collection was done by using observation, document recording, and test. Meanwhile, the data analysis was conducted by using descriptive analysis. Through the test, the result on students’ achievement upon the lesson of Natural Resources and Economic Activity was gathered. Before treatment, the average score was 64, 96 with the passing percentage was 54, 17%. After the first cycle of treatment using guided discovery learning, the average score and passing percentage was increased to 74, 38 and 79, 17% respectively. The final result on second cycle, in which revision and improvement had been done one several leaning aspects, the result of score and passing percentage had been increased to 82, 71 and 100% respectively. The result indicated that the learning method of guided discovery learning could improve students’ achievement on social science, particularly on the lesson of Natural Resources and Economic Activity at 4th grade students on the 1st semester during academic year of 2016/2017.

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