Implementation of Wildfire Disaster Modelling in Science Education to Increase Students’ Awareness
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https://doi.org/10.46328/ijres.6914Keywords:
awareness, modeling, science, questionnaire, wildfireAbstract
Land fires are one of the biggest disasters in Indonesia that occur every year and are important to anticipate. However, fire learning is more in science learning than in social studies learning, even though both require basic knowledge about local disasters. One of the learning efforts that can be done is the use of land fire modeling in learning to increase students' disaster awareness. Therefore, this study aims to determine the effect of wildfire disaster modelling on students' awareness of disaster. This quantitative study uses the One-Group-Pretest-Posttest Design method. The subjects of this study were 50 seventh grade junior high school students. The results of this study indicate an increase in students’ disaster awareness in social studies education which was previously in the moderate category then became a high category after land fire modeling was carried out. With a T-count value of 5.365> T-table value of 2.000 and a significance value of 0.00 <0.05 so that Ha is accepted. As for the recommendation, the data collected by distributing land fire awareness questionnaires before and after the land fire modeling demonstration was too narrow. Further research should be conducted on more students and course not only from science education.
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