Jurnal Pendidikan IPA Indonesia

Abstract

Chemical literacy is one of the important aspects that must be mastered PGSD students and primary school teachers , as well as an effect on many aspects of scientific literacy in the lives of such chemicals on the theme of water . This study aims to determine the chemical literacy of primary school teachers and students PGSD . The method used is descriptive method , the research subjects totaling 61 people , 41 people came from PGSD students and 20 people from elementary school teachers . The instrument used is a matter of chemistry literacy tests are 40 multiple -choice questions that include reason or other information to strengthen the answers given , questionnaires , and interviews . Data processing techniques performed included determination of the limits of chemical literacy achievement , scoring each question , changing the score values , grouping research subjects based on the values obtained , and the analysis and conclusions . From the research data showed that only 21 people ( 51.22 % ) students who have achieved literacy PGSD chemistry , as well as elementary teachers only 6 people ( 30 % ) . Literacy chemical that has not reached most of the study subjects , especially in the context of water quality , water properties , the role of water for life and water pollution . The context in which the majority has been reached on water treatment and water cycles . Efforts to address the low literacy PGSD chemistry students performed through the arrangement of the material scope of the lecture is given and done , one of them through a problem based learning.