The view that social studies subjects are boring subjects with a lot of material has been tried to be hacked by implementing a scientific approach to the 2013 curriculum. This approach prioritizes student-centered learning with their target having 4K characters, namely: communication, cooperation, critical and creative. These four characters are certainly very useful for building their lives in the future. The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze how the implementation of a scientific approach in social studies subjects at MI Muhammadiyah Kaligondang, Kaligondang District, Purbalingga Regency. The type of research used is qualitative research with a descriptive approach. Research data obtained through observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that 1) teachers make their own lesson plans or lesson plans that contain an outline of learning activities, 2) teachers carry out learning activities using a scientific approach with learning steps: observing, asking questions, gathering information/testing, associating/reasoning, and communicating. , 3) the teacher conducts an authentic assessment by assessing three competencies, namely attitudinal competence, knowledge competence, and skill competence, and 4) the obstacles encountered by the teacher during learning activities are that students have different grasping power from each other so that the level of understanding is even different.