Utilization of Geopark Medium for Resource Based Learning in Social Science to Improve Motivation and Learning Activity of Junior High School Students

Resource-Based Learning approach by utilizing geopark medium in Grade VII of State Junior High School in Bulukerto Subdistrict make students more active, easy to understand the material presented by the teacher and motivate the students to not experience the saturation of learning. Geopark medium is a natural resource of the earth, used for education, geo conservation in particular, activities with students held in the classroom. Some of these geoparks are used to transfer information for schoolchildren and teachers, seminars and lectures. Media geopark type karst and springs in the cave used in learning geography in social science. The purpose of making this scientific paper is to know the use of geopark media on the learning process of social studies subjects in grade VII in SMP Negeri in District Bulukerto Wonogiri regency year 2016/2017. This research is action research cycles with procedure consisting of pre-action stage and cycle design I and cycle II, in which there is observation to know the motivation and activity of student study of data collection using observation, questionnaire, field note, interview, and documentation. Indicator of achievement result of 75% all students have reached research objectives. Test the validity of qualitative research data using triangulation. The result of data analysis was obtained by the result of the students' motivation improvement on the initial action of the average percentage 19% from all students of class VII to 76% from the number of students of class VII that meet the criteria, after the action in cycle I and cycle II, Motivation of 90% of the number of students of class VII who meet the criteria mastery. Improved results on the aspect of motivation exceeded the planned target. Improvement of student learning activeness is seen from the change from result of action of cycle I which has been there improvement. Furthermore, after the second cycle of action occurs increased student activeness and beyond the planned target. In the pre-action, the learner activity only reached 21%, then the cycle I increased to 77%, continued to cycle II with the results of the first meeting the average learning activity 80% of the number of students in grade VII and increased in the second meeting the average learning activity 89% of the number of Grade VII students who have fulfilled the criteria of mastery.