The Practicality of Popular Scientific Books based on the Diversity of Mangrove Shrubs in Tabanio Village

Abstract

The development of a popular scientific book that is developed based on the local potential of a region 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 medifications in the Low Plant Botany course, especially in several studies of shrub diversity that require students to make direct observations. This development research aims to describe the practicality of the popular scientific book prototype entitled "Diversity of the Mangrove Shrubs in Tabanio Village." The research method used was the development model by EDR which was 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 89.18% with criterion strongly agree. This shows that a popular scientific book entitled "Diversity of Mangrove Shrubs in Tabanio Village" is very practical to be used as an enrichment material in learning Low Plant Botany.