Apply model of teaching levels of inquiry for identifying experimental skills on solar system matter in the middle school

Abstract

Apply model of teaching Levels of Inquiry in middle school level can identify experiment skills use the similarity from every stage in Levels of Inquiry process according to ten aspect of experimental skills that is adopted from Brotosiswojo and Richard J. Rezba. There are observation, making prediction, knowing variable, formulating hypotheses, operating variable, designing experimental procedure, collecting data, analyzing data, and making conclusion. This research is applied in the one of the middle school in Lembang, West Java with solar system as the matter. The research design used one group pretest-posttest design to 30 seventh-grade students. The learning process used semi-experimental phenomena because solar system matter in the middle school does not deliver much mathematic analyze. Collecting data from three meetings with different sub matter (time zone, moon phase, and solar eclipse). Supported instrument is student worksheet assessed using Lati criteria (very poor, poor, fair, good, and excellent). Identifying experiment skills can use its model and it can enhance from first to third meeting with the result is poor, fair, and good. © 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd.