PEB Infographic Utilization Technique: Its Effectiveness in Increasing the Global Warming Awareness of Grade 5 Pupils in the Anas Elementary School

Abstract

The peculiar characteristic of the infographic is that it can transform long and complex information transform into simpler and understandable knowledge. This makes the presentation a significant and remarkable mental interaction with the learners. Information is carried out in a vivid and visual presentation of complex data. Combining these, appropriate utilization techniques of infographic materials would result in an effective transfer of learning to the learners. The researcher observed that during the Science class, learners showed low interest and attention to the science lesson. The MPS of the pupils was ostensibly decreasing when the teacher compared the MPS of first grading and the MPS of second grading. Thus, with the alarming condition of the apparent MPS results and observed scenario in the classroom, the researcher developed a technique in utilizing infographics materials. The researcher opted that it is very timely to conduct action research to test if the technique on the utilization of infographic materials would increase the awareness of the pupils in global warming. The researcher used the “Present-Engage-Build Utilization Technique” in presenting the infographic materials during the teaching-learning process. The researcher utilized the descriptive –experimental pretest-posttest design where the research itself considers two entities: pretest and past-test of pupils after the use of the “Present-Engage-Build Utilization Technique” for infographic materials in global warming. Descriptive was used in getting the mean of the test results of the Grade 5 pupils. The test results of the Grade 5 pupils obtained an MPS of 34.26 in the pre-test and an MPS of 68.06 in the post-test. This reflects that there was a remarkable increase in the MPS of pretest of the respondents after the utilization of infographic materials. This is an apparent intimation that the utilization of infographic materials is an effective and potent infographic materials in increasing the awareness of global warming through the utilization of “Present-Engage-Build Infographic Utilization Technique” .T-test result showed the t-value gained 10.46 and when compared to the critical t-value of 1.76 revealed that there was significant difference on the mean scores of the Grade 5 Pupils. The presentation and utilization of the technique were effective in increasing the awareness of the pupils in global warming.