Abstract
Curriculum material is generally considered the subject matter of information, talents, dispositions, understandings, and principles that make up research programs in the field. At a more complex level, the curricula need to contain historical and socio-political strengths, traditions, cultural views, and goals with wide differences in sovereignty, adaptation, and local understanding that encompass a diversity of cultures, laws, metaphysics, and political discourse This study aims to develop a curriculum with local content as a new approach in early childhood science learning. The Local Content Curriculum (LCC) is compiled and developed to preserve the uniqueness of local culture, natural environment, and community crafts for early childhood teachers so that they can introduce local content to early childhood. Research and model development combines the design of the Dick-Carey and Dabbagh models with qualitative and quantitative descriptive analysis. The results showed that local content curriculum products can be supplemented into early childhood curricula in institutions according to local conditions. Curricula with local content can be used as a reinforcement for the introduction of science in early childhood. The research implication demands the concern of all stakeholders to see that the introduction of local content is very important to be given from an early age, so that children know, get used to, like, maintain, and love local wealth from an early age.
 Keywords: Early Childhood, Scientific Learning, Local Content Curriculum Model
Highlights
Teaching early childhood about local content with a scientific approach is very important to develop knowledge about local content that is around children, familiarize an attitude to care about local content that needs to be maintained, preserved, and can develop early childhood life skills and skills
At a more complex level, the curricula need to contain historical and socio-political strengths, traditions, cultural views, and goals with wide differences in sovereignty, adaptation, and local understanding that encompass a diversity of cultures, laws, metaphysics, and political discourse This study aims to develop a curriculum with local content as a new approach in early childhood science learning
The results showed that local content curriculum products can be supplemented into early childhood curricula in institutions according to local conditions
Summary
Teaching early childhood about local content with a scientific approach is very important to develop knowledge about local content that is around children, familiarize an attitude to care about local content that needs to be maintained, preserved, and can develop early childhood life skills and skills. The transformation of the potential for local wisdom in the early childhood curriculum can support the implementation of learning in early childhood education (Prasetyo, 2015). Education and learning can be successful if a set of tools that are used as guidelines by teachers in carrying out learning process activities known as curriculum are developed according to correct principles (Westbrook et al, 2013). Each school develops its own curriculum (Andrian, 2018), which is approved by the local government. The purpose of the local curriculum is to preserve the uniqueness or culture of the area (Hakk, 2011). The results of research on the development of local wisdom-based environmental education curricula are promising for early childhood education and elementary schools (Bakhtiar & Nugroho, 2016)
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