(Peer review + Similarity + Document) Impoving Students Critical Thinking through STEAM-PjBL Learning

The industrial revolution 4.0 era affected people’s lives, as well as the education
system and student learning. The world of education must be able to create and design learning life skills for the 21st
century, which one of it is critical thinking skills. Efforts are
made by applying the STEAM approach and using the PjBL model. The research was
carried out at SMP Muhammadiyah 6 Wuluhan Jember, control class VII B and experiment
class VII A. Material KD. 3.8 Analyzing the occurence of environmental pollution and its
impact on the ecosystem. The result of the sig (2-tailed) value is 0.046, which indicates that
hypotesis is accepted. To be conclude, the STEAM approach and PjBL model have a
positive affect on students’ critical thinking skills

Kata Kunci:
STEAM, PjBL, Critical Thinking, 21st Century Skills, Enviromental polution