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Abstract
As time goes by in the 5.0 era, technology and communication developments are accelerating, as is government policy related to education development. Early childhood education includes an early foundation for forming a child's critical thinking skills. The problems that occurred 1) the teacher's understanding is still lacking, 2) the motivation of the students is low, 3) the minimum means and resources in applying today's learning methods, 4) the low critical thinking of children in doing the understanding when doing activities. Applicable learning is HOST-based STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) learning with the aim in this research to improve early childhood critical thinking skills using steam methods based on hots. This method of research conducted class action research and the subjects used in this study were children aged 5-6 years (group B) at the Mekarsari Kebonrejo school, which consisted of male students 25 children and female students 19 children. While data collection is taken in this study using observations and documentation. The results of the study are seen from phase I results, which reached an average of 70,45% still less than the minimum accuracy criterion of 80%, but increased by 23.30% in phase II that reached the average of 93.75%. So it was concluded that the application of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) methods based on hots can improve the ability of critical thinking in early childhood. So the steam method based on hots is perfectly suited to developing early childhood skills especially in critical thingking skills