Abstract:
Learning using popular scientific books based on the local potential of an area is one solution that can be used to overcome problems that often arise such as a lack of student reading interest due to boring teaching materials and learning media in Ethnobotany courses, especially in some ethnobotany studies that require students to interact directly with the community. This development research aims to describe the practicality of a popular scientific book prototype entitled " Etnobotani Tumbuhan Mangrove Genus Avicennia Desa Tabanio". The research method used is the development model by Plomp and Nieveen which is limited to the formative evaluation phase based on the Tessmer model. The results showed that the results of the feasibility test for popular scientific books got an average score of 88.9% with very good criteria and the results of student responses to popular scientific books got an average of 91.56% with criterion very agree This shows that the popular scientific book entitled "Ethnobotany of Mangrove Plants Genus Avicennia Desa Tabanio" is very practical to be used as an enrichment material in ethnobotany learning.
