The Development of Learning Activity on Electricity to Promote Creative Thinking for Grade 4 Students

Abstract

This research aimed to 1) develop project-based learning activities on electricity for Prathom 6 students and 2) compare students’ creativity before and after learning with project-based learning. The sample group consisted of 9 Prathom 6 students at Ban Yang Noi School, Kosum Phisai District, Maha Sarakham Province. The instruments used were 1) 7 project-based learning plans, totaling 14 hours; 2) a creativity test, a subjective test with 4 items in 4 dimensions, with an IOC of 0.60-1.00, a discrimination power between 0.20-0.77, and a reliability of 0.70. The statistics used were percentage, mean, and standard deviation. And tested the hypothesis using the Wilcoxon Signed-rank Tests. The research results found that 1) The development of project-based learning activities on electricity for grade 6 students

         The learning activities were presented in order according to the steps. The development of project-based learning activities on the topic of electricity for grade 6 students from the evaluation of 5experts found that the mean of all 6 aspects was 4.61 with a standard deviation of 0.51, meaning that the organization of project-based learning activities was at the most appropriate level. 2) Students who received project-based learning had higher creativity after learning than before learning, with statistical significance at the .05 level.