DEVELOPING 3D INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA TAKBULTA FOR THE SUB-THEME OF ?POTENTIAL SOURCES OF ENERGY IN INDONESIA?

The availability of thematic, innovative, and interesting instructional media is deemed as a significant attempt for quality improvement on instructional activities in schools. In this current research, Takbulta (KotakTimbulBercerita ? a telling embossed box) has been developed as instructional media for the sub-theme of ?Potential Resources of Energy in Indonesia.? The sub-theme is one of several themes learnt by the fourth graders. This research constituted Research and Development model (R&D), which was previously advanced by Borg and Gall. The research phases encompassed research and data collection; planning the educational product; developing the product's preliminary form; initial field testing; the first revision of main product; main field testing; operational product revision; operational field testing; and final product revision. The results of validation gained from the media expert, material expert, and instructional practitioner 1 and 2 respectively signified 94.2%, 83.3%, 94.2%, and 94.2%. With respect to the aforementioned results, it has been explicated that Takbulta is appropriate to use. Moreover, the implementation of the media on the instructional activities shows that Takbulta has resulted in higher level of the students? active participatory during the instructional activities.