Copyright © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Development Of Self Construction Animation Software To Improve The Quality Of Science Instruction In Junior High School Diana Rochintaniawati International Program on Science Education Faculty on Mathematics and Science Education UPI Indonesia diana_rochintaniawati@upi.edu Rika Rafikah International Program on Science Education Faculty on Mathematics and Science Education UPI Indonesia rikarafikah@upi.edu Yayan Sanjaya International Program on Science Education Faculty on Mathematics and Science Education UPI Indonesia Yayan229@yahoo.com Abstract—This paper reports the result of study on development, implementation and evaluation of animation construction for integrated science teaching. The method of the study was research and development (R&D) consisted of two years research. The first year study was the development of animation resulted in topics of environment, energy, exploding candy and movement animations. In the second year study, the animation was implemented in three classrooms involving students from second year of secondary schools. Evaluation addressed by knowledge test and students’ questionnaire. The knowledge test resulted in a value of N gain 0.43 mean that the improvement of students’ understanding of science concept in a medium category. Weak experiment resulted in t score 2.926 showed the fulfillment of mastery learning. Furthermore, student opinions about the animation were positive Keywords— Self Construction Animation, Integrated science I. INTRODUCTION Globalization atmosphere has now becoming important for Indonesian society. One of the indicators of globalization is the use of technology that influences shift to the more modern living. Curriculum 2013 supports teacher to use ICT in science teaching learning. The availability of computer provides by government in most Junior High School, makes the use of computer based media becoming more possible for science teaching. The research on ICT in science teaching has been done widely around the world. The principle of teaching by using animation make teacher possible to run students centre learning in order students to be able to exercise their thinking skill and problem solving skill [1]. This study aims to develop teaching media that provide opportunity to student to construct their own animation by using software. Media give contribution to instructional process that can help student for their own learning. Computer can be used as teaching media. There are some supportive arguments to the computer use for students learning: experience, motivation, improving teaching and learning process, provide authentic content, do not rely on sole source, wider interaction, more personal and global understanding [2]. In science teaching, computer can be used to make abstract concepts to be more concrete. The use of computer is an effective in helping student to understand microscopic concepts [1]. Computer as teaching media, specifically animation is also can be used to replace laboratory activities that may dangerous or expensive if it is done by real laboratory activity [3]. Animation can be constructed through creative system with changing the objects or constructing the objects to produce illusion or movement [4]. Animation and simulation help student to understand difficult concept related to the complex science concepts. Visualization in animation which was designed and used effectively can help student to shape perception and understanding in a real context [5]. The use of animation in teaching involve student to the virtual world where they apply their knowledge and thinking skill in virtual situation [1]. The involvement of animation can also improve students’ motivation in learning science as simulation is more effective form tutorial and test item exercise. Simulation can improve students’ motivation, learning transfer, efficiency, flexibility besides secure and controlled feeling [4]. 98 1st International Conference of Mathematics and Science Education (ICMSEd 2016) Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR), volume 57