Improving the Students’ Activity and Achievement in Social Science Class by Using Film Media

Abstract

This research is aimed to improve the students' activity and learning achievement in social science learning process. The students who get a low achievement during the process is caused by the failure of the teacher in choosing the appropriate teaching and learning activities. To overcome it, the teacher uses film as a media to make the students involve in the learning activities physically, emotionally and intellectually. This research uses a classroom action research with 3 cycles. There are 32 students as the subjects of this research. The data are obtained through class observation and test. The results show that the students are more actively involved in the process of learning social science and their achievement at the end of the process are increased.