Curiosity is a very important trait in a human being. Curiosity character lays a strong foundation for learning, creating and finding something useful in life. This research aims to know the effect ARCS model has on the curiosity character of 21st century elementary school. It is the role of the educators to actively promote the curiosity character of a learner, lack of which is found to be the main problem effecting the normal academic growth of a student. The research method used was a quasi-experiment with control pretest-posttest design. The research population is from elementary school district Minggir, Sleman Yogyakarta, from the academic year 2017/2018. The research grade V, samples as many as 82 students in three schools. The samples were taken with simple random sampling technique. Engineering data collection curiosity character, using questionnaire and data analysis techniques using. Independent Sample t-Test. The results showed: (1) act more effective model ARCS used in conventional model are compared to; and (2) there is an interaction between ARCS model to the curiosity character of 21st century with had significant 0,000 less than α (0,05).
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