ABSTRACT
Character education in chemistry teaching and learning is still a big problem for teachers. Character education is seen as education in general, not integrated in every subject. Character education would be great if it was contextual. The use of culture elements well known to students will make character education more acceptable. TOKIJO are imaginary figures created to represent the integration of cultural elements and chemistry concepts. This article reports on the preliminary research process aimed at developing TOKIJO and evaluating it. This article describes the results of need assessment and development of TOKIJO based on the character of the elements and its correspondence to the character of cultural elements, namely wayang (Javanese traditional puppets). The result of need assessment analysis reveals that wayang characters are well known but not yet developed as a character education deliverer that is integrated to chemistry concepts. The development of TOKIJO figures representing the properties of the elements that are featured on Javanese characters is done as the initial step of this research.
