BIOPHYSICS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED SCIENCE MODULE FOR PRE-SERVICE TEACHER

Abstract

The challenge to teach science education in at the junior high school level is to ensure that all branches of science is integrated and coherent for students. This due to the science module taught in pre-service teacher education are given separately. This study aims develop a module for integrated science course. The module was designed to deliver a coherent integrated science by introducing and using Robin Fogarty’s connected model to pre-service teacher in the integrated science course in Lambung Mangkurat University. This study was carried out using 4D (Define, Design, Develop, Disseminate) development model. In the develop stage, validity test, practicality test, and effectiveness test was carried out. For the validity and practicality test, the data is analyzed descriptively, while the effectiveness test was analyzed using paired sample t-test. This study found that using Robin Fogarty’s connected model to create an integrated science module could result in a valid, practical, and effective module. The module also provide and a comprehensive example on how to use the connected model to different scientific concepts. Further study to explore other ways to integrate scientific concept should be made to provide students with more reference on how to integrate different concepts from different scientific branch.