With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, talented persons with a new competency in the intelligence information society have been required, and accordingly the 2015 revised curriculum has been newly applied at the school site. Software education is becoming more important since it enables students with diverse abilities to collaborate with each other and solve practical problems using computers. The purpose of this study is to examine effects of maker education through design thinking process on collaborative problem-solving ability in elementary school class. For this purpose, the contents of elementary school curriculum were composed of maker education program and taught to 131 5th graders. The students were divided into an experimental group and a control group, and the general lecture-style maker education program and our maker education program through design thinking process were applied in 10 classes to these two groups respectively. The elements of collaborative problem-solving ability were defined as communication ability, information science creativity, collaboration ability, and empathy ability. The result of the experiment showed that the experimental group in which conducted the maker education through the design thinking process had a statistically higher value in the collaborative problem-solving ability test than the control group in which performed the general maker education. The results of this study confirm that maker education through design thinking process has a more positive effect on the improvement of the collaborative problem-solving ability of elementary school students than the general maker education.