THE ASTRO-GARDEN :

A COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM
SOLVING FRAMEWORK IN SCIENCE - ART
CLASS

Andry Roberto, S. Si
SMP Negeri 12 Kotabumi
Kabupaten Lampung Utara
Provinsi Lampung
Collaborative Problem Solving
 Collaborative Problem Solving Skills is one of important life skills
in 21 century.

Problems:
Students act as
scientist in Mars.
Learn about Earth and Space

 Growing food

 Decorate the garden

 THE ASTROGARDEN
2 groups of students make two kinds of garden

Indoor Garden Outdoor Garden

• Hidroponic technique • Conventional technique
 Use lamp as source of light • Use soil and light of sun
energy
 EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE 2nd
Facts
 Collect the informations Problems
 Learned since Grade IV
in Elementary School. about Space from the books or by
 Indonesian’s students
using the internet.
reach Gold Medals in  Do the tasks in group or personal :
International Olympiad. - do the worksheets
 Students of Dell High - watch videos
School have do - do virtual experiments
experiments with - make some properties of space
NASA in USA.
 Keep the environment
and learning mitigation
of disaster.
 ARTS
 Do art tasks in group or personal, such as:
1. Decorate the garden with paint or other things
2. Make robots from botltes or cans
3. Use stones as art things
 STEP of IMPLEMENTATION
 Phase 1 : Challenge
Give the tasks to each group, choose indoor or outdoor.
 Phase 2 : Observation
Learning of space, choose kind of plants, type of garden &
methode of cultivation .
 Phase 3 : Simulation
Arrange the programs, schedule and jobs description,
design the garden, prepare the tools etc.
 Phase 4 : Final
Cultivating, harvesting, processing the food, make the
reports, documentations.
 Analysis of data :
Collaborative Problems Solving Skills, Learning achievements
of Earth and Space Science, Creativity of arts.
 Periode : March – December 2018
 Amount of students : 24 person
 Mentor : 2 science teachers and 1 art teacher
 Funding needs : Rp. 11.000.000,-
 Refferences :
- Luckin, R., dkk. 2017. Solved! Making the case for Collaborative
Problem Solving. Nesta.org.uk
- Tamimiya, K.H., dkk. 2015. Pengembangan Modul
Pembelajaran IPA Berbasis SETS Untuk Meningkatakn CPS
Skills Siswa. Universitas Jember.