PICTURE MEDIA APPLICATION IN SOCIAL STUDIES STUDENTS`CRITICAL THINKING ABILITY

Abstract

Education is an important for humans. Social Sciences studies (IPS) is one of the subjects taught at the Junior High School level. In social studies subjects, there are various learning media that can support the learning process in order to achieve learning objectives. For that researchers are interested in conducting research at MTs Nurani, Bogor City to see how the application of image media in social studies learning is beneficial for students' critical thinking skills. The purpose of this research is to (1). Analyzing how to use picture media in social studies learning. (2) Analyze how students' critical thinking skills in social studies learning. (3). Analyzing how the benefits of picture media in social studies learning for students' critical thinking skills. The method used in this research is descriptive method. Data collection in this study was carried out by taking closed questionnaires to class VII students of MTs Nurani Kota Bogor and face-to-face interviews with social studies teachers. The findings obtained in this study were the use of picture media in explaining the learning material was able to describe concretely and significantly related to the content of the lesson delivered by the teacher. The use of picture media in social studies learning in particular has a positive impact where students' critical thinking skills can be honed in it.