The integration of Palembang’s local potential in natural science learning materials

Abstract

Learning science is not just for memorizing concepts and materials, but students are expected to be able to apply science in everyday life. The approach that can be used in learning science and making students accustomed to science in their lives is a contextual approach, where students will learn science very interestingly, through direct and meaningful experience. Nowadays natural science learning does not apply a contextual approach as a whole. Integrating Local Potential with the material or content of natural science is one step that can be done to make learning science meaningful because it is very close to the daily lives of students. This research is a descriptive quantitative study with data collection methods through interviews, observations and also literature studies. The results of the study information that there are 22 local potentials of Palembang with 16 of them having a content of natural sciences so that they meet the criteria for being a source of learning and 6 others do not have a significant natural sciences content. The content of science that can be taught through local potential includes material in grades VII, VIII and IX of Junior High School.