The use of ice breaking to improve students' concentration in social sciences subjects in gifth grade elementary schools

Abstract

Learning is an important activity carried out by everyone. One of the supporting factors for successful learning is concentration. Having good learning concentration will help students understand and master the material being taught. However, conditions in the field show that students' learning concentration is lacking. This research aims to increase learning concentration by using ice-breaking. This research uses a mixed method research. The design used is sequential explanatory. The data analysis used is quantitative and qualitative. The subjects of this research were 25 grade V elementary school students. Data collection techniques in this research used observation, questionnaires, interviews, and tests. The results of this research show that there is an increase in students' learning concentration after using ice-breaking as seen from the result of the N-Gain Test, which measures the increase in concentration using ice-breaking, showing that the average is 45.4 which indicates a moderate increase in concentration. Keywords: Learning Concentration, Ice Breaking, Social Studies, Elementary School.