IMPLEMENTATION OF FLOOD DISASTER MITIGATION ACTIVITY WORKSHEETS FOR TRAINING CREATIVE THINKING IN CHILDREN AGED 5-6 YEARS

Lisa Setyaning Anggraeni, Mallevi Agustin Ningrum

Abstract

This research aims to improve the creative thinking of children aged 5 - 6 years through product development in the form of activity worksheets with creative thinking indicators from Munandar. This development uses the ADDIE development model. Data collection techniques use observation and questionnaires. The product trial results show that: (1) The validity of activity worksheets is included in the very valid category with a material expert validation percentage value of 89.2%, media expert validation 81.2%. (2) The effectiveness results with the Wilcoxon test result are 0.001, so if the results of significance are smaller than 0.05 then H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted, which means there is an average difference between the pre-test and post-test. (3) To measure learning outcomes between children's level of understanding before and after treatment using the N-Gain test which shows an average N-Gain value of 0.66 if interpreted as being in the criteria of moderate improvement. Determining the percentage level of effectiveness obtained was 66.20%, which is included in the quite effective category. So this activity worksheet on the topic of flood disaster mitigation for children aged 5 - 6 years is worthy of being used as a reference as a way to train creative thinking skills.

Keywords : Children's Worksheets, Creative Thinking, Early Childhood