The Effectiveness of Puzzle as Solar System Learning Media for Children with Disabilities

Puzzle games are very suitable for children with disabilities for the learning process because with puzzle games they will get knowledge by processing the information as a visual learner. The purpose of this research is to find out the effectiveness of puzzle games in the learning process about the solar system for children with disabilities.  This research is a type of RnD type. The research design used in this study is quantitative and qualitative. This research is used tests, observations, documentation, &  interviews for data collection.  The results of this study show that the use of solar system learning media in the form of puzzles has effectiveness which affects the process of solar system learning, this can be seen from the pre-test and post-test scores. The average of pre-test scores before the learning process using puzzles is 14.29 while the post-test scores after is 42.89 thus, it can be concluded that there is an increase in the mean value of 28.57. Keywords : disabilities, puzzle, physics, effectiveness DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23960/jpf.v7.n2.202003