Preliminary Research Description In Developing Tematics Learning Materials by Using Character Building and Discovery Learning to Establish Children aged 6-9 Years

摘要

The realization of character building in the learning process becomes the purpose of analysis in this research. The analysis of this study was conducted to overcome many attitude problems in the elementary school through the process of education in the schools. The research process was done by using Ploomp model which grouped into 3 steps, namely Preliminary Research, Prototype Pase, and Assessment Stage. The research finding in preliminary were children aged 6-9 years who need integrated thematic materials based on character education have characteristic: 50,79% of them have hobby of playing with various types of games, 38,10% of them like red color, 53,97% of them like food with material chicken, 37,30% of them like cartoon character figure, 42,06% of them like apple with, 48,41% of them, likes spinach and 68,25% of them like type of drink with juice percentage. This analysis shows an early description of the character of children aged 6-9 years which is very useful in making teaching materials for the realization of character building.