Human be havior naturally produce s culture. Each group has a uniq ue culture and is diffe re nt from one another. The digital age allows an incre asingly unlimite d distribution of culture. Like wise , cross-cultural inte ractions will be incre asingly carrie d out by e ach individual. It is important for stude nts to unde rstand cross-cultural inte ractions with the ir cultural inte llige nce. As an e ffort to multiply social re lations and ide ntify e ffe ctive be haviors at the time the cross-cultural inte ractions occur. This study use d de scriptive quantitative me thods. The re search instrument applie d que stionnaires. The population in this study we re all stude nts of VII grade in the State Junior High School (SMP N) 20 of Surakarta. The Sampling te chnique use d simple random sampling which took 89 participants. The data colle ction te chnique s a pplie d the te chnique of surve y. The compone nts of cultural inte llige nce cove r among othe rs;the CIme tacognitive , CI cognitive , CImotivation, CIbe havior. The pe rce ntage re sults of the me taCI cognitive showe d 64.77%, the CI cognitive showe d 62.88%, the CI motivation showe d 64.81% and CI be havior showe d 60%.

Technology is currently growing rapidly over time and demands changes in various fields. One of the expected changes is in the field of education. Changes in education are needed to improve the quality of education. Education as a developer of human resources (HR), should always experience changes in a better direction. Teaching materials used as transfer of knowledge in schools also need to be developed, so that they seem more modern. Moreover, in social studies subjects that have a lot of material so that more modern teaching materials should be developed, in this case to improve culture-based intelligence. This research aims to improve student's culture-based intelligence through the development of teaching materials on social science material for students of SMP N 8 Surakarta. The research was carried out in the odd semester 2018-2019. The method used is R & D with the Control Group Design Pretest-posttest research design. The research population was 7th grade students. The sample is assigned class 7H as the experimental class and 7G as the control class. The instrument in this research is a questionnaire. Data were analyzed descriptively. The result of research showed that culture-based intelligence of students through the development of social learning materials on social interaction material with very good categories. Based on the results of research, it can be concluded that the development of social studies teaching materials can improve the cultural intelligence of students at SMP N 8 of Surakarta.