Abstract:
In the 21st century, critical thinking skills are one of the essential abilities that greatly influence the academic and professional success of students. One of the learning resources that can train students' critical thinking skills is a learning resource that contains local potential. One of the learning resources that can be developed based on local potential is popular scientific books that are in accordance with the characteristics of critical thinking skills which are packaged in flipbook form to make it easier for students to access during the current pandemic. Popular scientific books (BIP) with the characteristics of critical thinking skills that were developed to overcome the problems of students' critical thinking skills. This study aims to describe the practicality of popular scientific books on aquatic plants in mangrove habitats in the form of flipbooks on students' critical thinking skills. The practicality data of BIP in the form of a flipbook was obtained from a one to one test to determine student readability using a readability questionnaire, small group test and field test to determine the practicality of expectations and actual practicality using a student response questionnaire and the results of observing the implementation of BIP use using an implementation questionnaire. This study uses a development research design with an EDR model through formative evaluation from Tessmer. Respondents are students who have passed the Plant Botany course program. The data analysis used descriptive categorization technique.
