STUDENTS LEARNING ASSISTANCE BY USING CHARTA MEDIA TO BUILD CHILDRENS’ INTEREST ON LEARNING AT RW 10, PELUNGGUT, BATAM

This community service aims to increase children’s self-confidence and to build their interest on learning and is one of the self-development activities for children by providing meaningful and varied learning experiences. Based on the survey which did at RW 10 Kelurahan Pelunggut, it was found that children faced some difficulties in completing their homework related to science. In addition, teachers explanation were dominated by conventional method. This is because learning that has been carried out so far in schools, especially elementary school. For elementary school students, the teachers rarely used innovative methods and the learning media used was not maximal yet, so there was a lack of interest on children's learning in understanding scientific concepts and theories. One of the methods used by teachers to increase children's learning interest was by giving a variety of media using charta. The use of this charta media can be done in groups through implementation in the form of an opening procedure, giving material with charta media and evaluation. The results showed that: (1) children were very enthusiastic, when they were told to answer given questions and respond well. (2) The implementation of the service program for children was very beneficial for them, so that the charta media could be applied as learning additional at home to instill children's learning interest in learning science.