The Effectiveness of Teaching Materials of Local-Wisdom Based Picture Storybooks on the Eco-Literacy of Elementary School Students

Abstract

The underlying background of this research with the importance of eco-literacy for students' elementary school. Ecoliteracy refers to the awareness of protecting nature and consuming local food for a healthy life. This experimental research aims to described the effectiveness of local wisdom-based picture storybook teaching materials on the eco-literacy of elementary school students. The applied design was a pretest-posttest control group design with a random sampling technique. The researchers used theme 3, caring for livings, and subtheme three, about loving the environment for the fourth graders of 2 (two) elementary schools in Indramayu, West Java. The results were 1) no significant experience increase found in the control group and 2) a significant experience increase found in the experimental group. Both groups' obtained N-gain values had huge differences, indicating the effectiveness of the applied local-wisdom-based picture storybook to improve students’ eco-literacy.