The main target of education is to improve quality human resources. Quality human resources will be achieved if they have the ability, namely broad knowledge, mastery of knowledge involved and a professional mental attitude and have the spirit or motivation to achieve. This research is a type of development research (Research and Development). What was developed in this study is a scientifically-based picture story book in grade V elementary school science lessons. This research is a research on the development of picture storybooks based on a scientific approach for grade V elementary school. The process of developing picture storybooks based on a scientific approach for grade V elementary school includes the type of Research and Development (R&D) development with a 4D model, namely: (1) Define which consists of (a) conducting a needs analysis, (b) determining learning objectives, and (c) determining the learning content and sequence of storybook stories