The use of interactive multimedia to build awareness against animal exploitation in environmental conservation education for children

Many people do not realize that actions involving animals often involve violence to the animals. Some of these actions are influenced by the regional cultural traditions such as Topeng Monyet , which for the most part of them are a lot watched by children and unfortunately this situation become a common things. Therefore, it is necessary to have an ideal education about preservation of biological resources, flora, fauna, and the environments for children’s, that can be obtained from appropriate activities through environmental conservation education. In the development of digital-based media today, interactive multimedia combined with fun learning is relevant to deliver information and to educate the children as early as possible. The purpose of this study is to analyse the usefulness of interactive multimedia as learning resource in the environmental conservation education, especially against animal exploitation for children. The research design employed the following steps: (1) designing the interactive multimedia; (2) produce interactive multimedia; (3) implementing interactive multimedia for elementary students as a learning resource; and (4) evaluating the result and learning process. The research subjects are 32 students from SDIT Mutiara Hati, Semarang who are studying the theme of learning about caring for the environment. The results showed that, by using interactive multimedia as a learning resource, student’s ability to know, understand, and mention what activities can be done as an environmental conservation activities against animal exploitation has increased. Therefore, it can be concluded that interactive multimedia becomes the right strategy to deliver information as an effort to build awareness against animal exploitation in environmental conservation education for children’s.