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Various concepts of light nature are delivered to elementary school students in science class ranging from light propagation, reflection, refraction and the dispersion of light. These all unique properties of light are interesting to be explained using analogy as they are closed to students’ daily experience. In conjunction with a research having purpose of investigating culture-based elementary school students’ analogical thinking skill, this study has been performed to explore some analogies derived from light concepts which are learned by the students in grade five and related to their cultural background. Two classes of elementary school students in a Pesisir area were involved in the study. The school was chosen based on some defined criterias which were related to students’ and parents’ origin, school history of establishment and school academic achievements. The methods of interview and literature study were implemented in order to gather the data of the analogies and the local culture of the research area. This paper presents the discussion on the findings and explores the benefits of the analogies in the field of education, particularly those which can accomodate to the process of building students’ character. Based on the data analysis and discussion, it was concluded that the relation between concepts of light delivered in elementary school science class with children’ cultural background allows the emergence of various interesting analogies. These culturebased analogies facilitate the teacher to obtain two different benefits in the learning process at the same time, those are interesting science teaching and students’ character building. Keywords—character, culture-based

Building Students Character using Light Concepts Culture-Based Analogy Delivered for Elementary School Science Class