Vegetable Stems As A Learning Media To Develop Children's Exploration

The background of this research is that there is still a lack of children's exploratory abilities in the critical thinking process and a low level of curiosity, Ilal. This is because the leaming that is applied is less diverse. The problem focuses on how children's explorative development occurs through providing stimulation using the SAINS (vegetable stem) play method. The aim is to find out the extent of development that occurs in children, especially in exploratory activities when using SAINS play activities (vegetable stem media). The method used by researchers is quantitative research. This research design uses Pre-Experimental Design with One-Group Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design. The population of this study was 100 children with a research sample of 20 children as the experimental group and 20 children as the control group. This research was carried out using a series of testing processes, namely; normality testing and homogeneity testing, so that data analysis can be carried out using the T Test (T-Test). The results of the research conducted found that children's explorative development was well stimulated through the SAINS (vegetable stem) play method applied to children as proven by hypothesis testing via the T test (t-test) with a sig value = 0.001 less than 0.005 or (0.001 <0.005). So it can be concluded that SAINS activities (vegetable stems) have a positive effect on other children's development such as social, artistic, physical motor skills, creativity, imagination, stimulate children to think critically and have a high curiosity.