DEVELOPMENT OF POE (PREDICT-OBSERVE-EXPLAIN) TEACHING MODULES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SCIENTIFIC THINKING SKILLS IN SCIENCE SUBJECTS

Abstract

The ability to think scientifically is an ability that students must have to face 21st century life. One way that can be done to improve students' scientific thinking skills is to apply the POE learning model to the teaching modules used. One way that can be done to improve students' scientific thinking skills is to apply the POE learning model to the teaching modules used. The POE learning model is a learning model that focuses on three main activities, namely predicting, observing, and explaining. In this study, the goal to be achieved is to find out the validity of teaching modules, the practicality of teaching modules, and the effectiveness of teaching modules in improving scientific thinking skills. This research will be conducted using the Borg n Gall model RnD method. The results of the research obtained in this research can be seen that the POE teaching module has been declared valid by validators, the level of practicality of the teaching module developed at the limited trial stage is classified as practical for teachers and very practical for students, then at the wide-scale trial stage the practicality level of the teaching module is classified as very practical both by teachers and students,  The teaching modules developed have been said to be effective in improving students' scientific thinking skills, this is due to an increase in N-gain scores from limited trial stages to wide-scale trials of 0.022.