IMPLEMENTING SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY APPROACHES TO DEVELOP GRADE 10TH STUDENTS’ SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION IN THE TOPIC OF CIRCULAR MOTION

Abstract

Scientific explanation is a skill encouraging students to become scientific awareness and connecting between knowledge and environment. Because the students have the ability to create the scientific explanation, it results in the students improve the understanding of scientific contents. This qualitative research has an objective to study the scientific explanation of grade 10th students in topic of circular motion by implementing scientific inquiry approaches in three main components. There are claim, evidence and reasoning. A tool was used in this study is a test of creating the scientific explanation. The results reveal that the students' scientific explanation creating skills are increased. The scores of each component of the scientific explanation of the students increase to good and very good level. The nature of instructional management emphasizing students to answer the question in the form of scientific explanation, to present the results of classroom activities in the form of scientific explanation and to answer the questions in the form of scientific explanation in gray-white paper help the students practice evidences and ideas derived from the activities as a reasoning to support the claim.