Student Worksheet Based on Inquiry With Vee Map to Improve Writing Skills in Physics Learning

Abstract

Writing activity is an essential scientific practice in learning physics. Writing activities can enhance conceptual knowledge and develop students' scientific literacy. Excellent writing skills reflect good learning outcomes and critical thinking skills. Writing includes a variety of complex skills that involve grammar, spelling, and punctuation, as well as the right language style. Complex skills are the demands of the curriculum and must be part of the learning target. Even so, students' writing activities are still relatively low in this case, students are still unable to write structured and reconstruct sentences accurately. Therefore, to help improve this writing skill, the researcher uses a guided inquiry model accompanied by worksheet assisted by Vee map. Vee maps are integrated in an inquiry step that can guide students to facilitate writing activities. Vee maps consist of several conceptual components, including knowing, focus questions, and doing. This worksheet contains a Vee diagram that aims to make it easier for students to fill in the sheets and student understanding of the material. This study concludes that worksheet assisted by Vee maps can be used to construct of scientific writing in high school students' physics lessons.