Preliminary study to develop of learning media for Newton's law of gravity using ICT based on contextual teaching and learning for senior high school

Abstract

Learning of Physics should be a scientific work exercise conducted by students with teacher guidance. Such physics learning requires media and teaching materials that facilitate students to conduct scientific investigations. Besides the study of physics is a variety of events that occur either spontaneously or planned by humans. Because physics is contextual, it should be the subject of study in context-based learning. However, some of these contexts may not be presented directly in the classroom, because some are very fast, too long, or because they are very large or tiny. Therefore, engineering is required through the utilization of ICT. So, the learning media of physics as needed is contextual based and presented by ICT. A survey has been conducted to find out whether the scientific activities in physics learning to have been done in accordance with the demands and whether there is available instructional media and teaching materials as per the learning needs for high school physics. The survey results show that only half of the scientific activities required in the curriculum are implemented and only one-third of contextual based learning media and utilize ICT appropriately. One of the lesson material in physics on X grade that do not have media and teaching materials as needed is Newton's law of gravity. Therefore, it is necessary to do further research.