This study aims to determine the effect of learning using the demonstration method on student understanding and how much influence it has. With the selection of methods that are in accordance with the characteristics of the subject matter, it is expected to increase students' understanding so as to reduce the occurrence of verbalism. This type of research is quantitative with a quasi-experimental method consisting of an experimental class and a control class. The sample in each class is 10. The data collection technique uses a test, namely an objective test of 10 questions and a subjective test of 5 questions. The results showed that the effect of the demonstration method on students' understanding which can be seen from the analysis of the "Independent Samples Test" in the "Equal variances assumed" section, it was known that the Sig (2-tailed) value was 0.319 > 0.05, so as the basis for decision making, it can be concluded that Ha is rejected and Ho is accepted which means that there is no significant effect on the application of the demonstration method through video learning on student understanding at MI A-Taqwa Sidoarjo during the covid-19 pandemic.