39 JIPF (JURNAL ILMU PENDIDIKAN FISIKA) p-ISSN: 2477-5959 | e-ISSN: 2477-8451 Vol. 6 No. 1, January 2021, Page 39-44 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Development of Current Stick Teaching Aids to Improve Students' Generic Science Skills Nur Khoiri 1 , Choirul Huda 2 , Joko Saefan 3 , Wawan Kurniawan 4 Universitas PGRI Semarang, Indonesia 1,2,3,4 nurkhoiri78@gmail.com 1 , choirulhuda581@gmail.com 2 , jokosaefan@gmail.com 3 , wawan.hitam@gmail.com 4 Received: August 27 th , 2020. Revised: September 21 st , 2020. Accepted: September 28 th , 2020 Keywords : Development; Generic Science Skills; Current Stick ABSTRACT The study aimed to develop the Current Stick teaching aids and determine its effectiveness to improve students’ generic skills. The type of research is development research which involved 180 students of class X SMAN in Blora were chosen through cluster random sampling. The instrument used to collect the data was a validated question sheet from the assessment of students’ practicum report in using Current Stick teaching aids and the observation sheet. The instruments were addressed to students from the control class and experimental class. The obtained data were tabulated and analyzed by using t-test. The result shows that the experimental class achieved an average percentage of generic science skills of 77.2%, while the control class reached 66.4%. It reveals that the difference in the percentage of generic science skills is the result of using Current Stick teaching aids. Based on the results and discussion, it was found that the development of Current Stick teaching aid is effective to improve students' Generic Science skills. INTRODUCTION The life challenges in the 21st century require young generations to master variety of relevant skills. Therefore, one of the expectations for the education field is that prepare future generations to master these various skills in order to emerge as an adaptive and successful generation in facing life's challenges [1] [2] [3]. Align to the need of preparing the generations with the various skills, the generic science skills could contribute to provide them an opportunity which is more beneficial for students in their daily life. Generic science skills were divided into cognitive skills which specifically related to scientific thinking and an affective skill. The types of skills that really need to be trained in the learning process are critical thinking skills, metacognition, communication skills, problem solving, collaboration, creation and innovation, technology and information literacy [4] [5] [6] [7]. The achievement of these skills are done by updating the learning paradigm and the quality of the learning process. Moreover, renewing the learning paradigm is marked by developing student participation, adjusting the characteristics of learning methods, project/problem-based learning, communication, cooperation,