Development Of Health Education Teaching Material Through Comic Media For Elementary School Students

The purpose of this study was to create a product for the development of health education teaching materials for elementary school students. This study is a developmental research. The development procedures in this study include: (1) conducting a need analysis, (2) making a draft of the initial product, (3) validating experts that are health education experts and media experts, (4) improving the draft initial product, (5) first trial that carried out on learning experts and students, (6) initial product revisions, (7) second trial, (8) revision of final products and (9) final products of the health education teaching materials. This study obtained 85% of health education expert evaluation data and 95% of media experts, so that the average percentage was 90% and included in the "very good" category. The results of the first trial reached 86% which is categorize as “good”. The results of the second trial on the field received the following results: 1) physical education teacher in sd n 01 sekaran received 93%, 2) and physical education teacher in sd n 02 sekaran received 94%, so that the average percentage of 93.5% is included in the "very good" category. The results of student responses are as follows: 1) sdn 01 sekaran obtained 86%, 2) and sdn 02 sekaran obtained 92%. Since the students can understand and explain the material respectively, it can be concluded that the teaching materials of health education through comic media are very appropriate to be used. Keywords— Health Education Teaching Material, Comic Media