Learning Report Writing from Experiments, not Lectures
What happens when students are asked to write a report, but instead of starting with a lecture, they start with an experiment?
This is how EBPP Junior High School students are currently learning their ‘report text’ topic in their Indonesian language lessons. Rather than simply listening to an explanation about the structure and language of a report writing, they first explore, observe and discover something for themselves.
Their experiments are simple but full of questions. They have made slime, explored how styrofoam reacts when mixed with gasoline to create glue, and tested what happens to an egg when placed in salt water. Does it sink, float or drift? And why?
After completing each experiment, the students discuss what they observed and use their findings as the basis for writing a report. They practise describing the materials and steps, recording what happened, and explaining their observations clearly and logically.
Through this approach, writing is no longer just an exercise on paper. Students have something real to write about because they have experienced the process themselves.
By combining experimentation with writing, the lesson helps students build both their Indonesian language skills and their curiosity to ask questions, observe carefully and explain what they discover.
By: I Made Suarjana, EBPP Indonesian Language Teacher
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