Preliminary Study on the Design of Forest and Land Fire Disaster Learning Media for Elementary Schools

¹ Elementary Teacher Education, Universitas Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
² Civic Education, Universitas Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
³ Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa, Serang, Indonesia
⁴ Early Childhood Teacher Education, Universitas Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
⁵ Special Needs Education Program, Universitas Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: eddy.noviana@lecturer.unri.ac.id

Abstract

The study discusses teachers’ knowledge and experience using learning media for elementary schools’ forest and land fire disaster mitigation. The results of this study are used as a preliminary investigation to design an Air Pollution Index Simulator (SI-ISPU). The research method used is a survey method. Respondents in this study amounted to 23 teachers in elementary schools. Data collection techniques using closed questionnaire techniques and data analysis techniques using descriptive statistics. The results showed that 39.13% of teachers still did not know the learning media that could be used to teach forest and land fire disaster mitigation. Then, 69.57% there are still many teachers who have not taught using learning media for forest and land fire disaster mitigation. The experience of teachers who have developed learning media for forest and land fire disaster mitigation is only 13.04%. Then 78.26% of teachers experienced problems developing learning media for forest and land fire disaster mitigation. Furthermore, 65.22% of teachers have difficulty teaching forest and land fire disaster mitigation. The research concludes that most teachers still experience difficulties and obstacles in developing learning media and teaching about forest and land fire mitigation in elementary schools.