Metacognition is the awareness of cognitive processes. By using metacognition, someone does all the activities with full awareness. The objective of this research is to develop learning model (i-SMART) and learning materials that involve student’s metacognition and character, curiosity, cooperate, and precision, which perform all acts by full awareness. They always make good representing the problem, planning, monitoring, evaluating, and transfering their action. The type reseach is Research and Development, tested at class XI MIA 4 SMA Negeri 1 Banjarmasin. Implementation of design research conducted using one-group pretest-posttest design. Data was collected through testing, observation, questionnaires and interviews techniques. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results showed that the model i-SMART develoved has been effective: (a) increasing in student cognitive, metacognitive skills, and student character, (b) learning material based on local potentials make the students learn to their surroundings. Keywords: character, metacognition, chemistry learning, local potentials