Development Of Creativity Problem-Based Learning Models To Increase students Thinking Creativity In Elementary School core Of Medan City

lack of creativity in students' thinking. There needs to be innovations that can help teachers create interesting learning and help students learn independently. The innovations carried out include the development of Civics teaching materials through the development of Problem Based Learning (PBL) learning models.
This research is purposed to aim to ( 1) find creativity problem-based learning model to increase students thinking creativity, (2) examine the practicality, validity, and effectiveness of PBL model.

This research is developmental research uses Plomp’s approach by consisting of five phases, namely (1) initial investigation phase, (2) design phase, (3) realization phase, (4) test, evaluation, and revision phase, and (5) implementation phase. This study was carried out at the core elementary School in the Medan Area District, which consist of six elementary schools and the instrument employed in this research is a questionnaire. .The development stages were pre-survey, pre-trial, and field trial.

The findings of research are: (1) problem based learning model to increase students thinking creativity as well as validated tools supporting, (2) the level of practicality of the PBL learning model obtained a value of 4.11 with the “high” category, (3) the level of effectiveness of the PBL learning model classified on “high”. Based on the results of data analysis and research discussion, it can be summarized that the development of the PBL instruction model has fulfilled the level of validity, practicality and effectiveness to increase students' creativity.