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.
