PENGARUH MODEL PEMBELAJARAN INKUIRI DAN KECERDASAN NATURAL TERHADAP PEMAHAMAN MASALAH PENCEMARAN LINGKUNGAN

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The objective of research is to determine the effect of inqury learning model on the students

understanding  in  terms  of  environmental  pollution  issues.  This  research  compared  modified

inquiry model to guided inquir modely, which was applied to both of students that have high naturalist intelligence and the low one. Research was accoplished to the grade VII of junior high school students in school of Bogor with a total number of samples 84 students random Sampling. The result of the research showed that there was an interaction between inquiry learning model and naturalist intelligence on students understanding on environmental pollution issues. It also could be seen from the result of analysis calculation with varian Fcalcu > Ftable  (5,106 > 4,016 a =

0,05).  The  interaction  between inquiry  learning  model  and  naturalist  intelligence  on  students understanding on environmental pollution problems then had to be tested using Tuckey test which will result the interaction impact.

Keywords : inquiry learning model, naturalist intelligence, and understanding on invironmental pollution  problems.