The Necessity Analysis of Mind Mapping Based Pocket Book with Materials of Diversities in Indonesia

The Mind Mapping based pocketbook is a small-sized complementary book than the standard book. It is systematically based on brain mechanism principles and has a philosophy of “learning any time.” This research explores the potency of pocketbooks with civics material about the diversity in Indonesia based on Mind Mapping. This research is qualitative descriptive with a survey method, the samples consisted of 28 learners of the fourth grade of primary schools and two civics teachers in Gugus Rara Mendut cluster, Pati. A questionnaire instrument collected the data. The obtained results explained that 64.3% of respondents considered the materials about Indonesia’s diversity was challenging to learn. Most of them stated that the learning difficulties were due to many memorizations. The teacher respondents argued that complementary learning sources could stimulate the learners to gain better learning outcomes. Various complementary learning sources are expected to be the solutions of the learners’ learning difficulties. Based on the data, the learners needed innovative and exciting learning sources entailed by Mind Mapping.