Analysis of the Natural and Social Science Curriculum at the Elementary School Level in Indonesia

The independent curriculum is designed to be a better future solution for education in Indonesia. This curriculum is expected to reduce the learning losses that occurred after the COVID-19 pandemic. In the independent curriculum at the elementary school level, natural science subjects are changed to natural and social science subjects. Natural sciences and social sciences are combined into one subject at the elementary level. This is due to the fact that children in elementary school tend to see everything as a whole and integrated. In addition, they are still in the concrete and simple, holistic, and comprehensive thinking stage, but not in detail. The combination of these subjects is expected to trigger children's ability to manage the natural and social environments in one unit. The aim of this research is to describe the curriculum of natural and social sciences in elementary schools including goals, content, processes, and evaluations that apply in Indonesia. This study uses the method of a literature review. Researchers collect data sourced from books, government regulations, journals, and previous research. The results of the research show that learning natural and social sciences in elementary schools focuses on the study of knowledge about living and inanimate things in the universe and their interactions, and examines human life as an individual as well as social beings who interact with their environment. The natural and social science curriculum in elementary schools includes material understanding and process skills. The learning process takes 180 hours of lessons per year. Evaluation of learning is carried out through daily assessments, midterm assessments, end of semester assessments, and end of year assessments. [For the complete proceedings, see ED655360.]