The Development of Civics Picture Book Media for Third Grades Students Fitria Dwi Prasetyaningtyas Department of Elementary School Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Semarang Semarang, Indonesia Email: fitriadwiprasetyaningtyas @mail.unnes.ac.id Aftiina Siti Aisya N U I K N Department of Elementary School Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Semarang Semarang, Indonesia Email: aftiina.tisa@gmail.com Ali Sunarso Department of Elementary School Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Semarang Semarang, Indonesia Email: alisunarso@mail.unnes.a c.id Umar Samadhy Department of Elementary School Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Semarang Semarang, Indonesia Email: umarsamadhy@mail.unn es.ac.id Abstract—This study aimed to describe the media design, test the media feasibility, and know the effectiveness of the Civics picture book media. This study used a quantitative approach. The type of research was Research and Development (R&D). The data collection techniques used were test, interview, questionnaire, and documentation. The data analysis of this study was analysis of media feasibility and analysis of media effectiveness. The picture book media of Civics for local cultural uniqueness material was claimed very appropriate by the material expert with 84.4% feasibility percentage, and 80% by the media expert or included in the feasible criteria. The test result of the difference between two means with t test obtained tcount was 9.184 and ttable was 2.064. The conclusion of this study was the Civics picture book media was feasible and effective to be used in Civics learning for local cultural uniqueness material, in accordance with the improvement of students’ learning result in Kedungpane 02 Elementary School. Keywords—picture book; local cultural uniqueness; Civics I. INTRODUCTION According to Winataputra (2014), Civics (PKn) is education that concerns the formal status of citizens who were initially regulated in Law No. 2 of 1949 which contained self-citizenship, and regulations on naturalization or the acquisition of status as Indonesian citizens. Civics in Law No. 22 of 2006 is a subject that aims so that students have the ability to participate actively, responsibly, and act intelligently in community, national and state activities, as well as anti-corruption. To achieve better student achievement, especially in Civics and to facilitate students learning, a media is needed to facilitate students to understanding the material. Based on preliminary research through interviews, observations, document data, conducted by researchers in third grade of Kedungpane 02 Elementary School, it was known that, Civics subjects have been taught but not maximally. From the results of observations, students' learning responses in the class were less than optimal, it was seen that only a small percentage of the students were able to answer the questions the teacher gave. In addition, the researchers also observed that the use of instructional media by teachers was still limited to textbooks and simple examples, not yet using specific and clear media. Through unstructured interviews of researchers with several students, information was obtained that third-grade students still did not understand the culture in the Central Java region. Student learning outcomes in Civics subjects were mostly still under the KKM, which was 70. This was evidenced by the final test value of students who researchers get from homeroom teachers, with learning outcomes in the cognitive domain 13 students from a total of 25 students around 52% have not received optimal grade. These problems indicate that there needs to be an improvement in the learning outcomes of Civic learning content. In this study, researchers chose to develop media picture books. Media images / photos are two- dimensional media that represent the original form. Image / photo is a visual tool that can be visualized so that it can be explained more concretely and realistically. Information will be more easily accepted and understood by children by looking at pictures / photos because they are closer to reality. Picture books are media as teaching aids to explain the material of a lesson, which can facilitate students in understanding the material being taught. "Media images are very suitable for use in elementary schools, especially early classes, this was because the media was very useful for concretizing things that were abstract in the form of images or photographs, which International Conference of Primary Education Research Pivotal Literature and Research UNNES 2018 (IC PEOPLE UNNES 2018) Copyright © 2019, 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/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 303 195