Snowball Throwing Learning Model in Growing Questioning Skills of Elementary School Students: A Review

Abstract

Asking activity is one of the efforts made to obtain additional information to build knowledge. Asking activities encourage students to think critically about the learning material being studied. So it is necessary to build students' questioning skills through the learning model applied by the teacher. The focus of this research is to describe the application of the snowball throwing learning model in fostering students' questioning skills in elementary schools. The approach used in this research study is a descriptive qualitative approach with literature studies. In this research study, the authors formulated the problem and continued by tracing existing and relevant research results for analysis. Data collection techniques by browsing electronic journals through Google Scholar and books related to learning. From the results of a study of several previous research results, it shows that the snowball throwing learning model can foster students' questioning skills combined with the game of throwing snowballs. Even with the snowball throwing learning model, students studying in groups do not only ask questions but encourage students to provide answers and explanations of the material. So that it makes students more critical in thinking. The results of this research study are expected to be a stimulus for teachers to facilitate student learning so that they are skilled in asking questions. So that the process of communication in learning in the classroom becomes more active.