The Effect of Discovery Learning Method Towards Students' Learning Outcomes and Critical Thinking Skills in Primary School

摘要

The researchers decided to conduct this study since almost all elementary students considered social sciences very difficult in which the subject cannot be memorized easily and boring. One of the learning models which get the students involved in construction-based learning models and cooperative learning models is discovery learning. This study aims at ascertaining the effect of discovery learning the cooperative model towards the learning outcomes and critical thinking skill of the fourth graders in SDN Klakahrejo Surabaya.