THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAMPANG LOCAL HISTORY CURRICULUM BY USING HISTORICAL METHOD TO ENHANCE CRITICAL THINKING FOR GRADE 5 STUDENTS

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) Create and find the quality of development of Lampang local history curriculum by using Historical method to enhance Critical thinking for grade 5 students, 2) Study impacts of the development of Lampang local history curriculum by using Historical method to enhance Critical thinking for grade 5 students. The design is the one-group Pretest-Posttest design. The target groups in this research were 23 students who were studying in the second semester, Academic Year 2023 at Chitaree Welfare School under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Srinagarindra, the Princess Mother. Tools used for this research were 1. Curriculum 2. Curriculum Manual 3. The critical thinking test. The data was analyzed by average , standard deviation  and t-test dependent. The research findings were as follows: .1) The development of Lampang local history curriculum by using Historical method to enhance Critical thinking for grade 5 students consisted of 7 elements; 1) Problem statement 2) Principle of curriculum 3) Aims of curriculum, 4) Content structures 5) Activity 6) Materials Resources and 7) Learning sources, Measurement and evaluation. The average of the curriculum appropriateness was at high level and the overall of the curriculum instructions was at high level appropriated 2) The result of using the curriculum development of  Lampang local history using Historical method to enhance Critical thinking for grade 5 students was found the posttest score was higher than the pretest at the significant level of .05