The development of web based inquiry as online science inquiry environment

This paper studies a research in the design and development of web based inquiry as online science inquiry environment. The web based inquiry is constructed to help junior high school students in understanding everyday science phenomena with guided inquiry framework and various sources of scaffolding. Furthermore, it is aimed to support teacher in designing their inquiry virtual class for new normal studying era. This study used 4-D development consisting define, design, develop, and disseminate as research method. At the beginning, it is stated about inquiry theoretical framework and online science inquiry environment underpinning for designing the web based inquiry, describe the features and components of the system, and explain workflow of web based inquiry’s instruction. Web based inquiry went through expert judgement with positive feedback. Afterwards, web evaluation questionnaire is distributed to science junior high school teacher to underline their perception regarding web based inquiry. The result of web evaluation questionnaire gained over 80% positive response. Therefore, web based inquiry can be used for both teacher and students in learning science with appropriate content navigation and layout.