PENINGKATAN MOTIVASI BELAJAR SISWA KELAS IV B PADA PEMBELAJARAN IPA MELALUI STRATEGI CARD SORT DI SD KARTIKA I-11 PADANG

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The background of this research is the lack of IV B grades student’s motivation for IPA subject in SD Kartika I-11 Padang, with percentage of student’s which has learning motivation is 53%. The problem is poor in learning strategy. One of the ways to overcome the lack of student’s motivation is by using card sort. The purpose of this research is to describe the increasing of student’s motivation in learning process of IPA subject. This research is class measuring research. This research is performed in two cycles. Subject in this research is 30 student of IV B class SD Kartika I-11 Padang. Instruments in this research are questionnaire of students’ motivation and observation sheet of student’s motivation. Results show that there is an increasing in learning motivation for IPA subject. Analysis of student’s motivation sheets in first cycle is 56.24% and 84.16% in second cycles. Analysis of student’s motivation questionnaires in first cycle is 75.49% and 86.24% in second cycles. It can be conclude that learning process of IPA subject through card sort strategy can improve student’s motivation. It is suggested that teacher use the learning cell method to increase student’s learning motivation.

Keywords: motivation, card sort strategy.