USING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AS A SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUE TO SUPPORT THE SCIENTIFIC HABITS OF MIND

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all people without discriminating any border, country, race, ethnicity and so forth (Arroio, 2020). Thus, it has acted as a new playmaker in recognizing the importance of education and social justice. As stated by Usak et al. (2020), we, as educators, should pay more attention to the development of students’ awareness and scientific attitudes. Thus, they are able to think, understand, decide and make an action about any urgent event or "forced" transition, i.e., the pandemic process (Rodgríguez et al., 2021). Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have generated a climate of fear for scientific advances and mass vaccination as well as regulations on lockdown, socialization, and hygiene.

Pembelajaran Berbasis Masalah Berpendekatan Socioscientific Issue Terhadap Sikap Peduli Lingkungan dan Hasil Belajar Siswa

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui efektivitas model pembelajaran berbasis masalah berpendekatan socioscientific issue terhadap sikap peduli lingkungan dan hasil belajar siswa pada materi minyak bumi di MAN 2 Rembang. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode eksperimen dan menggunakan desain penelitian noneqivalent control group design. Teknik pengumpulan sampel dengan menggunakan teknik cluster random sampling, didapatkan dua kelas sampel yaitu kelas eksperimen (XI MIPA 1) dan kelas kontrol (XI MIPA 2). Data penelitian dianalisis dengan menggunakan uji perbedaan rata-rata, uji efektivitas variabel, dan uji korelasi antar variabel. Hasil penelitian diperoleh peningkatan rata-rata sikap peduli lingkungan dan hasil belajar kelas ekperimen 43,04 dan 44,74 sedangkan kelas kontrol 26,23 dan 24,38. Uji efektivitas variabel menghasilkan nilai Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) sebesar 0,000 < nilai probabilitas 0,05 untuk sikap peduli lingkungan dan nilai Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) sebesar 0,000 < nilai probabilitas 0,05 untuk hasil belajar. Uji korelasi antar variabel menghasilkan nilai rxy = 0,617 dan dinyatakan signifikan dengan korelasi cukup kuat. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa penerapan model pembelajaran berbasis masalah berpendekatan socioscientific issue efektif digunakan pada pembelajaran untuk meningkatkan sikap peduli lingkungan dan hasil belajar siswa pada materi minyak bumi di MAN 2 Rembang.

Design of a Socioscientific Issue Unit with the Use of Modeling: The Case of Bees

A major aim of science education reform documents (Achieve, 2013) is for K-12 students to engage in scientific practices to facilitate a better understanding of the processes and the aspects of doing science (Bybee, 2014). In this design case we present the design of a teaching unit on a socioscientific issue (SSI) that can potentially engage learners in modeling and argumentation. The unit focuses on the controversy about the declining population of honeybees. The “Should we care about the bees?” unit engages the participants in the practice of modeling for explaining and arguing about the causes, consequences, and possible solutions related to the problem of the bees. Our unit aims to illustrate how to address the intersections between science and society and to promote scientific practices in science learning and teaching. Two university science educators from different countries worked together to design and re-design the teaching unit. Initially the unit was designed in order to promote the exploration of the socio-scientific issue through argumentation, but after an initial implementation we decided to focus on modeling the issue as well. The final design product is a seven-week unit. In this paper we discuss design challenges and decisions of using an SSI based unit that promotes learning and teaching SSIs in the context of scientific practices.