IMPROVING STUDENT'S INTEREST AND LEARNING OUTCOMES THROUGH THEN INQUIRY APPROACH IN IPS LESSONS ON NATURAL AND MANUFACTURED VIEWS MATERIALS IN INDONESIA IN CLASS V SDN 8 BONE, BONE BOLANGO REGENCY

This study aims to increase student interest and learning outcomes through an inquiry approach to social studies subjects on natural and artificial features in Indonesia in Class V of SDN 8 Bone, Bone Bolango Regency. Sources of data in this study are primary data through the distribution of questionnaires and learning outcomes tests to students and observation sheets by the Civil Service teacher to researchers. The data analysis technique used is descriptive with a Class Action Research model. The results of this study indicate that (1) Increasing student interest in social studies subjects can be done by teachers using theInquiry learning approach in class V Elementary School 8 Bone, Bone Bolango Regency. This is evidenced by an increase in interest in learning from the results of initial observations has an achievement of 61.21% to 73.64% in cycle 1 and 84.07% in cycle 2. (2) Improving student learning outcomes in social studies subjects can be done by teachers by using the Inquiry learning approach in class V Elementary School (SD) 8 Bone, Bone Bolango Regency. This is evidenced by an increase in the number of students who meet the minimum completeness criteria for social studies subjects, where at the initial observation there were only5 people or 35.70% of the total students, an increase in cycle 1 of 9 people or 64.30% of the total number of students. total students and then increased again in cycle 2 as many as 13 people or 92.90% of the total students