Deskripsi singkat:

Biodiversity is a valuable biological assets in every ecosystems which have to be preserved. One kind of ecosystem which holds a massive number of biodiversity is the quarry ecosystem. It is then required to create an effective and efficient way to raise the awarness of preserving the biodiversity among the society around the quarry.

Children are part of the society which actually plays an improtant role in preserving the biodiversity wether in the present or in the future. Children ae easier to acquire an information if the information is demosntrated and transferred in a fun way. One example is by using an educative game as a learning media. Snake and ladder is a familiar game which can be modified into an educative game, besides it is also cheap and easy to make. Therfore, it is very suitable to be turned into an educative game which able to educate children about biodiversity preservation.

Snake and ladder game has never been used to educate children about biodiversity and the necessity to preserve them. This game will transfer the information about biodiversity to children in a fun way, and furthermore raise the awarness among the children to contribute in the biodiversity preservation.

Deskripsi lengkap+tujuan:

According to World Wildlife Fund biodiversity includes million plants, animals, and microorganisms along with ecosystems which forms a living environment. Biodiversity plays an important role and it has an obvious impact towards the humans life. Because every organisms on earth actually take their part in supporting and preserve the nature balance.

One of the ecosystem that has to be preserve is the quarry. The Quarry has numerous valuable plants and animals, therefore their existence have to be preserved not only by the mining industry as the main stake holder but also by the society around the quary as well. Because it is impossible for the industry to do the biodiversity conservation responsibility without any support from people around the place. Thus, it is very important for the people to understand about the importance of biodiversity and the impacts towards their life.

Children are part of society who lived around the quarry. Children age is the best time to give education about various information and good habits. Children are tend to have a better cognitive development. Therfore it is considered as the best time to give education about biodiversity and their role, and also our efforts to preserve them. Snake and ladder is a common traditional game for children. Snake and ladder is a cooperative game which is cheap, easy to make, simple and fun. This game can make children become enthusiastic in learning, therefore it is very suitable to become a biodiversity learnig media for children.

Snake and ladder has never been used to educate children about biodiversity. Therefore, according to the explanation above it is necessary to do a strategic and effective way in raising the knowledge and awareness of children about biodiversity around the quarry. Children around the quarry plays important part in the biodiversity conservation. The most basic thing is how we can educate them effectively so they will become aware and willing to take part in the biodiversity conservation. One

of the way is by designing an educative game like a modified snake and ladder game which cotains the information about biodiversity and how we can preserve it.

The short and mid term targets that we want to achive in this project is that children can understand well about biodiversity and the urgency to preserve it. While the long term target is that the children become aware, so that they will be motivated to join the biodiversity conservation efforts, starting with simple acts like no littering, and the that act will soon become more massive in the future like joining theirself in a rehabilitation movement around the quarry. Another long term target is that this game can promote Indocement as a cement company which care about biodiversity preservation and the children education.

This research is aimed to: 1) know the best game concept in order to raise the children knowledge and awarness about biodiversity 2) to konw the effect of the game towards the children knowledge and awarness about biodiversity 3) to know the best indicators which can indicate the success of this game in raising the children knowledge and awarness about biodiversity.

III. RESEARCH METHOD

A. Tools and Material

Tools needed are one set modified snake and ladder game called as “The Adventure of Si

Indo”, writing utensils, camera and recorder. Materials needed are questionaires dan

respondents. The amount of respondents are 28 children at the age of 8-11.

B. Procedure

1. A 20 minutes pre test is given before the game begin

2. A set of “The Adventure of Si Indo” game is allotted to four child to play.

3. An explanation about on how to assemble the game is given as part of preparation.

4. Game rules is explained and demonstrated to each player.

5. After the game is completed, a 20 minutes post test is given to each player

6. interview and questionaires filling is then given after the post test

Data analysis

Each correct answer for pre-test and post-test will be given 1 point, while wrong answer will be given 0 point. Then data is then tested statistically using Paired T-Test to find out the effect of independent variable (snake and ladder modification game tool) towards dependant variable (kids knowledge and awareness to biodiversity) using 0,05 alpha value (Labibah et al., 2010).

Keterlibatan tim dan orang

There are 5 students who will be directly involved n this research project, they are:

1. Abraham Kevin Prasetyo Sasongko (Agroteknologi/ UNSOED)

2. Putra Yanuar Anhaar (Agroteknologi/ UNSOED)

3. Fatkhurohman (Agroteknologi/ UNSOED)

4. Zaheidy Hikamturrahmadhani Putri (Agroteknologi/ UNSOED)

5. Maulina Oky Savitri (Ilmu komunikasi/ UNSOED)

Other people who will be involved in this project are: Chlidren age 8-11 who lives around the quarry (as the main respondents) and teachers (as the supporting respondents). We are also planning to consult this project with experts like children psychologist and graphic designer.

Jadwal

This reserach is estimated for 25 days, started from May. The schedule are:

1. First week: Materials preparation, location surveys, respondents data colecting

2 Second week: Field research execution which includes the snake and ladder execution, distribution and evaluation of the pre and post test, interview, and status report organizing.

3. Third week: Data analysis, progress report, dan documentation

4. Fourth week: Final report and final documentation

Nilai tambah:

For the society this research project will give the basic knowledge about biodiversity and the urgency to preserve it towards the children. That knowledge will then raise the awareness so that they become enthusiast an motivated to contribute themself in the biodiversity preservation efforts through simple acts every day. This good change among the children will then also affect their parents, so there will be a some sort of a chain reaction, where the parent will also become motivated to preserve the biodiversity as what their children had done. In the future, the basic knowledge that the children have recieved can be implemented in bigger actions.

For the company, this modified snake and ladder game can become a cheap and effective advertising and communication media mainly towards the chlidren and schools around the quarry. Because in each game set, the company logo will be attached and displayed wether on the game arena or on “Si Indo” as the mascot. For the long term plan, this game can help reducing the company cost to socialize the the importance of biodiversity towards the society

it can be imagined if each family has their own child who is aware in preserving biodiversity,then in the future, all families around the quarry will have the same awareness to preserve the biodiversity

the estimate cost needed for this proect is 5 million IDR, which includes:

1. Materials and tools cost: 2,5 million IDR

2. `transport cost: 1,5 million IDR

3. Miscelaneous cost: 1 million IDR

The estimated time needed for the project is 25 days and with, wtih 5 people involved as the main researcher.