Empowering the character of healthy living is a vital effort to improve the quality of public health, particularly in developing the quality Indonesian human resources. However, the factual knowledge and awareness about the importance of healthy living among the poor is still very low. The aim of this...

Sources of reading on Sustainable Reserve Food Garden (SRFG) which is still less become the causes of low environmental knowledge and environmental awareness behavior. Based on this analysis, booklet development on SRFG is used as a source of reading for the society. The research is developmental research...

Self-efficacy is the student’s belief in the ability to perform necessary tasks or actions to achieve a particular outcome. Self-efficacy can influence students’ feelings, ways of thinking, motivations, academic achievements, and social behaviors. The higher self-efficacy that students have, the higher...

The result of observations on several high schools in Malang regency showed that the teachers had not implemented metacognitive strategies in Biology learning process. The general impact is the students have not empowered their metacognitive skills such as awareness of planning, monitoring, and evaluating...

A concept maps is one of the teacher's tools to measure students’ prior knowledge, encourage them to perform meaningful learning and to increase their achievement. It also helps students to overcome difficulties in understanding a concept, empower their critical, creative and metacognitive thinking skills....

The development of the 21st century requires learners to have a sophisticated knowledge insight in the era of global competition. The 21st-century generation must master high-order thinking skills. One of them is critical thinking skills. Critical thinking skills are skills that learners must possess....

Rebuttal is an essential aspect in scientific argumentation skill. Level of scientific argumentation skill depends on the quality of the rebuttal process. Students who can produce a high-quality rebuttal to defend their claims are proved higher level of scientific argumentation skill than the student...

This study is a research and development (R&D) which refers to 4-D development model. The objective of this study is to produce a valid, practical, and effective scientific approach-based learning module in Plantae concept. The study employed descriptive qualitative and descriptive quantitative approaches....

This paper presents a new approach to determine the difference in problem-solving abilities between students treated with a concept attainment model and those treated with discovery learning model. This study was experimental research. The population of the study was 12th graders of Science in the 1st...

The needs of the 21st century in education need the creating of young people to have life skills. The life skills can be trained through the learning process and identified through student learning outcomes. Learning outcomes are one of the factors in successful learning. Therefore, a solution is needed...

The integrating of place-based education needs to make the learning activity more meaningful and make student can apply their knowledge to solve the real problem around them. The purpose of this research is to describe the integrating of place-based education in biology learning through inquiry to improve...

This study aims to observe the needs of handout as a teaching materials in the Mycology course at Biology Department, State University of Malang. The research sample were students of Biology Department at State University of Malang who has been passed for Mycology course. The qualitative data is a survey...

Critical thinking is one of the 4C skills of the 21st century have to be mastered by students to analyze the phenomena of science and think for the well being in the world. Some factors are argued as the key points to nurture the skill, such as the learning strategies, and the content of learning which...

Critical thinking studies were mostly aimed at improving critical thinking skills and placed a critical thinking disposition as a nurturing effect. Thus, critical thinking disposition is rare to practice including in learning Biology. Meanwhile, critical thinking disposition is required so that students...