Improving Social Studies Outcomes Learning Through Snowball Throwing Method

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The purpose of this study was to improve the social studies learning outcomes of students in the Beautiful Cultural Diversity of My Country material through the Snowball Throwing method for fourth grade students in the even semester of the 2022/2023 academic year SDIT An-Nahl Tapos Depok. This research method was classroom action research that follows the Kemmis and Tanggart model. The time research was 3 months, from February to April 2023 with 19 subjects and data collection technique was carried out with tests, observations, interviews, and documentation. The results showed a significant increase in social studies learning outcomes. This was evidenced by the average results of the IPS test in cycle one, two and three increased, namely 69.73, 76.05 and 83.42. Based on observations, it showed that student learning activities with the Snowball Throwing improved. This study concluded that learning social studies using the Snowball Throwing can improve the social studies learning outcomes of students