LITERATURE
IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND LEARNING NUTRITIONAL LEVELS TO INCREASE KINDERGARTEN
SCHOOL CHILDREN'S THINKING POWER
Fauza
Sari Rahmadani1, Asep Bayu Dani Nandiyanto 2
Indonesian Education University
[email protected]
1, [email protected] 2
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Article History : Received: 07-09-2022 Revised: 16-09-2022 Accepted: 22-09-2022 Keywords:
Learning, student
activity; nutritional levels; literacy. |
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Abstract The purpose of this study
was to find out how much nutrition is owned by children in TK NURUL ATHFAL
school, the method used is learning using powerpoint media in the form of
pictures. Teaching students are required to listen, dare to ask and answer
questions that have been given to the teacher, and conduct joint discussions.
Parents were given a pretest via Google from before the learning activity
started and a posttest after the learning activity. The understanding and
success of the student learning process that filled out the parents of the
students with 20 pretest and posttest questions. The learning was carried out
by 30 students at the NURUL ATHFAL Kindergarten school in the city of East
Jakarta, Indonesia, this learning process was carried out online using the
zoom meeting media. The results of this study showed that students can know
healthy food and balanced nutrition. This is evidenced by the increase in the
pretest and posttest by 20 questions to parents, some students who have more
good nutrition than poor nutrition. this shows that learning is successful
because the material that the teacher gives to students can be very
understanding and active in learning because it can attract students' interest
by using media songs that stimulate student interest, although in the
posttest and pretest sections that are filled in by the parents of students
there are less This research can provide information that parents already
understand nutritional levels to improve the thinking power of school
children and parents who fill out the questionnaire will seek to understand
nutritional levels in depth and will try to apply them to their children in
detail. |
Corresponding Author: Fauza
Sari Rahmadani�
E-mail: [email protected]
INTRODUCTION
Learning is a process of interaction
of students with educators and learning resources in a learning environment.
Learning is carried out on students to make students understand the material or
material that will be conveyed by the teacher. a relatively permanent change in
behavior or potential for behavior
as a result of experience or reinforced practice, due to the interaction
between stimulus and response. A person is considered to have learned something
if he can show a change in his behavior. Nutrition is
defined as the process by which organisms use normally consumed food through
the processes of digestion, absorption, transportation, storage, metabolism,
and expenditure of nutrients to maintain life, growth and normal function of
body organs.
Students have educational stages that
are determined based on the level of development of students, goals to be
achieved, and abilities developed. As early childhood education (PAUD) in
preparing children to be ready for school to a higher level, Broadly
speaking, literacy itself is a general term that refers to a person's abilities
and skills in reading, writing, speaking, calculating, as well as solving
problems in the classroom. everyday life. In other words, literacy cannot be
separated from a person's ability to speak.
There are many papers that discuss
about nutritional levels to improve the thinking power of school children.
MASTNA NEZAMUL KHUSAIYAH (2021) discusses increasing understanding of balanced
nutrition in early childhood at NU 001 Muslim Kindergarten, Ponorogo,
but there is a shortage of the population, it is still difficult to eat three
times a day or only consume incomplete food (without nutritious side dishes and
without vegetables). complete vitamins) These health problems do not only
affect adults and adolescents. Many children in our country, who should still
have adequate and complete nutritional intake, and in fact suffer from hunger
and lack of balanced nutrition, therefore it is necessary to pay attention to
the nutrition of children from pregnant mothers to children born to adulthood.
Children who do not get the fulfillment of good
nutrition will certainly experience delays in the growth and physical
development of children. especially Then Riskesdas
(2010) showed that the number of children under the age of 5 years is still a
lot of malnutrition can reach 17.9% and have health problems
According to Devi (2012) Children are
a group that shows very rapid growth so that they require high nutrients per
kilogram of body weight. The role of parents is very important in fulfilling
nutrition because at this time children really need parental attention and
support in facing very rapid growth and development. To get good nutrition, it
is necessary to have good nutrition knowledge from parents in order to provide
a balanced menu of choices, according to Dahlia (2013). short and thin, and
suffering from anemia. Lack of energy and protein
(KEP) in children is still a nutrition and public health problem in Indonesia,
while Itza Mulyani (2021) The problem is the lack of
understanding of elementary school age children (6-12) years in Drien Rampak village, Johan Pahlawan sub-district, West Aceh district about the
importance of nutrition for children for brain growth and intelligence. If the
child is malnourished, it will have a very bad impact on the continuity of the
child's growth and development in the future. Malnutrition is a big problem
which will result in various types of diseases can be infected. Based on these
problems, the purpose of this community service is to increase children's
knowledge about the importance of healthy and nutritious snacks for elementary
school age children.
Analyzing
learning regarding nutritional levels to improve the thinking power of school
children, starting with an introduction to image media and knowing how much
nutrition children in NURUL ATHFAL Kindergarten have for their parents. this
research was carried out using digital media methods to 30 students with the
parents of the NURUL ATHFAL TK school, the learning process was carried out
through a zoom meeting. Before holding a meeting in learning, parents fill out
20 pretests to measure knowledge about nutritional
levels in children. After that, kindergarten students did learning
activities about healthy food and balanced nutrition.
The novelty of this research is (i) the level of nutrition to improve the thinking power of
school children is wrong for parents to understand the nutrition of their
children (ii) learning is carried out online with fun activities for Nurul Athfal Kindergarten students (iii) students can understand
what what the teacher has taught about healthy food
and balanced nutrition
The success and understanding of
parents by filling out the posttest, the questions
are made different from the pretest. The results of
the posttest showed that there was an increase in the
scores for some parents but a few experienced a decrease in the pretest section. From the test results, it can also be seen
that some parents of students are not able to understand the accuracy because
there are some questions that trap parents. Some of these questions are made so
that parents can understand nutrition in child development.
METHOD
The learning method used in this study is a digital-based
learning method for kindergarten students who are accompanied by parents. The
research was conducted by 30 kindergarten students who were accompanied by
their parents in the city of DKI JAKARTA, INDONESIA, using powerpoint
media in the form of images. In this teaching, students are required to listen
and dare to answer the questions that have been given by, and discuss together.
This learning process is carried out using an online zoom meeting.
The understanding and success of the students' learning
process was evaluated by filling out 20 pretest and posttest questions. At the beginning of learning, parents
are given several pretest questions in the form of
google from to measure how much they can understand nutrition in children.
After the students who are accompanied by their parents carry out learning
activities, the parents are given a posttest in the
same form. The pretest and posttest
questions are shown in table 1.
Table 1. prettest and posttest questions
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No |
pretest |
posttest |
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1 |
Is it true that there is a relationship
between nutrition and the thinking power of school children? |
signs of malnutrition in children or
toddlers, among others, except? |
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2 |
Do you know about nutrition? |
Which food substances are stored as food
reserves? |
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3 |
Have you met your nutritional needs so
far? |
Thrush is a disorder that occurs in the
mouth due to deficiency? |
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4 |
Can I give children snacks? |
Diarrhea can be triggered by eating food? |
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5 |
Is your child's nutrition sufficient? |
How to recognize malnourished children
from an early age? |
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6 |
Will malnutrition affect the decline in
thinking power? |
Healthy food is? |
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7 |
Is it okay to eat it every day or not |
What are some unhealthy foods? |
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8 |
Does your child eat 3x a day? |
What does nutrition consist of? |
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9 |
Do children need vitamins? |
Tempe includes what protein? |
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10 |
Should the child drink a lot of milk? |
How much calcium is needed in children
4-6 years? |
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11 |
Do children need a lot of protein? |
Which is better, children snack a lot or
eat 4 healthy 5 perfect? |
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12 |
Can children snack a lot? |
Vitamin D from what foods, except? |
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13 |
is a smart child measured by nutrition? |
How to deal with a hard-to-eat child? |
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14 |
Can nutrition have an influence on
children's growth and development? |
How many snacks are allowed? |
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15 |
Are there certain foods that can provide
growth and development in children? |
How to make children want to eat
vegetables? |
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16 |
Can the food menu grow healthy and not
get sick easily? |
What foods contain balanced nutrition? |
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17 |
Are nuggets a healthy food |
Examples of foods from animal protein? |
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18 |
Do side dishes such as chicken, fish,
eggs, meat, vegetables, and milk meet the nutritional needs of children in
their growing period? |
Green beans include protein? |
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19 |
The importance of a healthy breakfast for
school children can improve concentration while studying? |
What foods are good for growing children? |
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20 |
Adequate nutrition affects the health and
intelligence of children, so knowledge and ability to manage healthy food for
children is very important? |
Mention examples of foods from animal
protein, except? |
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Figure 1 shows the average score of 30 students from Nurul Athfal Kindergarten who were tested but who filled out the
questions to their parents. Parents of students are said to be good at
understanding nutritional levels in children.
Figure
1. Student pretest average score��������� Figure 1. Student Posttest
Average Score
|
1. Q 2. No |
3. Pretest 4. Score |
5. Prosttest 6. Score |
7. Q 8. No |
9. Pretest 10. Score |
11. Posttest 12. Score |
13. Q 14. no |
15. Pretest 16. Score |
17. Posttest 18. Score |
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19. 1 |
20. 20 |
21. 26 |
22. 11 |
23. 26 |
24. 32 |
25. 21 |
26. 30 |
27. 36 |
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28. 2 |
29. 22 |
30. 28 |
31. 12 |
32. 26 |
33. 32 |
34. 22 |
35. 30 |
36. 36 |
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37. 3 |
38. 22 |
39. 28 |
40. 13 |
41. 26 |
42. 32 |
43. 23 |
44. 30 |
45. 36 |
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46. 4 |
47. 24 |
48. 28 |
49. 14 |
50. 30 |
51. 34 |
52. 24 |
53. 30 |
54. 36 |
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55. 5 |
56. 24 |
57. 30 |
58. 15 |
59. 30 |
60. 34 |
61. 25 |
62. 32 |
63. 36 |
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64. 6 |
65. 24 |
66. 30 |
67. 16 |
68. 30 |
69. 34 |
70. 26 |
71. 32 |
72. 36 |
|
73. 7 |
74. 26 |
75. 30 |
76. 17 |
77. 30 |
78. 34 |
79. 27 |
80. 32 |
81. 36 |
|
82. 8 |
83. 26 |
84. 30 |
85. 10 |
86. 30 |
87. 34 |
88. 28 |
89. 32 |
90. 38 |
|
91. 9 |
92. 26 |
93. 32 |
94. 19 |
95. 30 |
96. 36 |
97. 29 |
98. 32 |
99. 38 |
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100. 10 |
101. 26 |
102. 32 |
103. 20 |
104. 30 |
105. 36 |
106. 30 |
107. 32 |
108. 38 |
Table
2. Results of Student Pretest-Posttest Score
The results of the study as seen from
table 2 the value has increased. As for the discussion:
CONCLUSION
Science learning regarding nutrition levels to improve
the thinking power of school children using digital-based learning methods
using zoom meetings to 30 kindergarten school students showed quite good
results. Students' understanding in the learning process which was made in the
form of posttest and pretest
showed mixed results, although the content with parents of students, some
parents experienced a decrease and some experienced an increase. If it is seen
from the average value of the parents compared to the posttest
and pretest, it can be seen that the average values
of the parents of students increase and increase after the
parents carry out learning activities with students accompanied by their
parents. Supported by methods that are suitable for digital-based learning and
also interesting media for students so that students are active and do not feel
bored during learning activities.
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