Copyright © Ahmad Suradi et al. Vol. 02, No. 2, June 2021 p-ISSN: 2723-746X e-ISSN: 2722-8592 IJAE Page 256 https://doi.org/10.46966/ijae.v2i2.163 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License The Islamic Education Through Scientific Approach: Learning and Character Building on Transmigration Territories Elementary School Ahmad Suradi *1 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6062-2184 , Nilawati 2 , Ani Aryati 3 1 State Islamic Institute of Bengkulu, Indonesia 2 MI Nurul Huda Kota Bengkulu, Indonesia 3 Universitas Muhammadiyah Palembang, Indonesia *e-mail: *suradi@iainbengkulu.ac.id Article Information ABSTRACT Received: December 29, 2020 Revised: February 02, 2021 Accepted: February 28, 2021 Online: May 31, 2021 This article aims to reveal that the learning of Islamic education and scientific-based character is an attempt to neutralize the assumptions about the inability of teachers to develop students to their full potential. Likewise, the assumptions about the learning of Islamic education and manners only have ritual, ethical and moral dimensions so that students can verbally understand the teachings of Islam and are skilled at implementing them, but they do not appreciate the depth of their meaning. This research is qualitative; the informants are religious teachers and students through interview and observation techniques. The research results show that implementing Islamic education and character education through a scientific approach explores the field to find concrete examples of how to empathize with others and be devoted to parents and teachers. Furthermore, learning with a scientific approach, especially on students' character matter, has promising implications for shaping student morals for the better. It is because students are required to practice directly the phenomena that arise from the existing learning material. Therefore, experiments carried out through observation and making simple reports and then discussed in class groups are practical approaches to remember, understand, and practice the messages in the material delivered. Keywords Islamic education learning, character building, scientific approach INTRODUCTION Learning through a scientific approach is a learning process that is designed so that students actively construct concepts, laws, or principles through stages of observing (to identify or find problems), formulate problems, propose or formulate hypotheses, collect data with various techniques, analyze data, draw conclusions and communicate concepts, laws or principles found ( Machin, 2014). According to Suastra in Marjan (2014), the nature of science has three components: product component, process, and attitude. Science as a product has meaning as a collection of facts, concepts, principles, and laws about natural phenomena. Thus, science is a structured and systematic series to discover concepts, principles, laws, and natural phenomena. At the same time, science as an attitude is expected to be able to shape character.