The purpose of this study was to explore the pattern of science motivation and nature of science (NoS) and the relationship between science motivation and nature of science in middle school students located in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. The design of this study was survey followed by the correlation study to discover the relationship between science motivation level and nature of science comprehension. This research included 113 students as sample. The instrument used for data collection was SMQ and seven essay test from NoS indicator. This study revealed that the students had a median score of science motivation and the low score in nature of science comprehension. There were students’ science motivation and nature of science comprehension urgently need to be improved. It can be done by developing learning process and any support from school or family.

Metacognitive awareness has been considered as one of the factors within students that determines learning success. It can be developed through a hybrid learning approach. The purpose of this quantitative research was to examine the metacognitive awareness profile of students with high-academic ability in hybrid learning implementation. The subjects of this study were the students of XI-Science class of state senior high school of Malang. The Metacognitive Awareness Inventory was used as the data collection instrument, while descriptive statistics and Pearson Product-Moment were chosen as the data analysis techniques. The results of the study informed that the students’ metacognitive awareness was divided into four categories, i.e. very good (9%), good (43%), enough (46%), and very low (2%). The three components of metacognitive awareness were classified as "enough", while the five components of students were categorized as "good". The eight metacognition components showed significant correlations each other (r > 0.41, n = 55, p < 0.01). It can be concluded that the majority of students’ metacognitive awareness was satisfactory even though there were a small proportion of students whose metacognitive awareness was not good.

The low condition of students’ Generic Science Skills (GSS) becoming a concern since GSS is an essential provision for millennial living in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0. The study aimed to measure the impact of guided inquiry learning on generic science skills by using the digital swing model. This research used the experimental method which involved 360 students of 12th grade from senior high school. The primary data of students’ GSS were obtained from observations during activities and reports of practicum activities, then the resulting data were analyzed by t-test. The average of students’ GSS in the experimental class was 3.32, which is included in the very good category. Meanwhile in the control class was 3.17, which is included in the good category. Based on the results of the t-test analysis, the score was 0.044, which means that there were differences between the experimental class and the control class. Thus, it can be concluded that the use of digital swing has a positive impact on students’ GGS. The use of digital swing could stimulate the students to do the practicum activities which leads to the improvement of student’s GGS. However, this study is only focusing on the smaller angle; therefore, it is crucial for further research to set up the digital swing with the angle >15° to identify the effect on it.

The damage of environment right now being the concern of many institutions including the schools. The schools that provide good learning environments will give a great contribution in solving environmental issues by creating pro-environmental generations. Thus, the schools play important role in giving a long term solution to the environmental issues. This research was aimed to measure the level of environmental literacy comprehension in Teachers and students in senior high schools in coastal area. This research used quantitative approach to examine the level of the environmental literacy in students and teachers. The t test analysis was used to show the differences between students and teachers in environmental literacy comprehension. In addition, correlation and regression test were used to show the relation between teacher's environmental literacy comprehensions with the student's environmental literacy comprehensions. This research involved 40 students and 41 teachers from high schools in coastal area. The score of environmental literacy was taken using Middle schools environmental literacy surveys (MSELS) questionnaires. The result shows significant value as 0.643 (p> 0.05) that there are no differences between teachers and students comprehension in environmental literacy. In addition, correlation-regression analysis also shows R= 0.201 with sig. value as 0.209 (p> 0.05). This result indicates that there are no correlations between teacher's environmental literacy comprehensions and student's environmental literacy comprehensions.

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