Development of Local Wisdom-Based Discovery Learning Models to Improve Critical Thinking Skills on Theme Growth and Development of Life

Students and teachers need the development of learning methods on the theme of growth and development of living things to improve students' critical thinking skills the theme of growth and development of living things. The development of discovery learning models based on local wisdom is one of the appropriate learning methods, 2) Development of teaching materials based on local wisdom to improve critical thinking skills on the theme of growth and development of living creatures for class III in Elementary Schools starts from module design, then is validated by media experts, material experts and practitioners. At the final stage, the validation results are revised, and 3) The feasibility of developing teaching materials based on local wisdom for the theme of growth and development of living things class III in elementary schools based on the average value of critical thinking skills after using teaching materials for experimental class 1 of 88%, the average value of critical thinking skills after using materials experimental class teaching 2 is 77%, and the average value of critical thinking ability of control class students is 63%, this shows that there is a considerable difference between the control class that does not use local wisdom-based teaching materials and the experimental class that uses wisdom-based teaching materials.