Ecological Knowledge of Elementary School Students Through the Use of Ecoliteracy Teaching Materials in Curriculum 2013

This research provides an overview of students' different knowledge about ecology in elementary schools using the 2013 curriculum developed by eco-literacy teaching materials. This research uses a quasi-experimental method with two classes consisting of an experimental class and a control class with a research subject of 37 fourth grade students at SD Negeri 181 Pekanbaru. The results of the study on students' ecological knowledge pre-test with an average experimental class of 57.2973 and control class 58.5946, then given a different treatment so that the posttest data obtained with an average experimental class 87.3514 while the control class with an average of 74.3784 seen the experimental class higher average ecological knowledge compared with the control class, to see the difference in ecological knowledge then the pre-test and posttest data were tested for differences, the results obtained by the experimental class 0.569 > 0.05 then Ho was accepted and Ha was rejected it can be concluded that the ecological knowledge data of students had no significant difference using teaching materials for eco-literacy in the experimental class. In the control class 0.000 < 0.05, it was concluded that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted, so there was a significant difference in the control class in the ecological knowledge of pre-test and posttest. It was concluded that the use of eco-literacy teaching materials was more effective in increasing students' ecological knowledge.