Collaborative Learning: Building Ecological Awareness Through Social Studies

Environmental problems are issues that have not been exhaustively discussed in the global eyewear. Every environmental problems occurring human position as the main axis of the environmental damage that occurred. In the lowest level to educate absolute understanding of environmental awareness is given by teachers in each subject. The process to address the educational process is the implementation of collaborative learning. This article aims to describedescribes how collaborative learning can build environmental awareness and relation to social studies. Study literature used to describe the results of discussions in narrative form. In the context of building ecological awareness, collaborative learning affects the knowledge of students by touching the three main topics in environmental awareness, namely: 1) knowledge (the what, where, when, and why), 2) the attitude (the want to), and 3) skills (the how-to). It is aligned with the Social Studies material related to building environmental awareness in class VII Chapter I in particular the theme of People, Places and Environment. Keywords; environmental awareness, collaborative learning, and social studies.