Jurnal Al Ilmi Vol. 6 No. 2, 2017 THE EFFECT OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING MODEL TO STUDENT CREATIVITY IMPROVEMENT ON WASTE RECYCLING PRODUCT MATERIAL Dini Afriansyah 1) a) , Fajri Ismail 2) , Erie Agusta 3) , Muhammad Nasrul Mustain 4) 1), 2), 3), 4) Departement of Biology Education, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, UIN Raden Fatah Palembang Jl. Prof. KH Zainal Abidin Fikri No. 1A KM 3.5, Palembang 30126, Indonesia. a) diniafriansyah90@gmail.com ABSTRACT This study aims to determine the effect of project based learning models to increase students’ creativity in wasterecycling products of class X. The sample of this research is students at class X. X.1as a experimental class with 30 students and class X.2 asa control class with 30 students. Data obtained from the documentation, students activity sheets, product creativity assessment sheets, and students creativity questionnaire. The data analysis used is the result of prerequisite test data and hypothesis test which includes independent sample t- test and paired sample t- test. The results show that Ha of both hypothesis tests are accepted. This means that Project Based Learning model influences students' creativity in making waste recycling products at class X. Keywords :project based learning, student creativity increasing, waste recycling product INTRODUCTION The creativity of students, need to be developed in the educational process. One of them is on the Biology lessons should focus on student learning (student center). Students should have the ability to investigate and solve problems so as to improve the creativity of the students in the learning process (Munandar, 2014). Based on observations and interviews in one of the high schools at Palembang, the creativity of the class X students is still very low in generating creations or products from waste recycling. It is shown that in the teacher's room there is no product resulting from waste recycling in the previous at class X. Although in the classroom there is the creation of students, there is only student s’ creations that are not produced from the Biology learning process. Students’ creations products are only a picture and a pot of flower on the wall. The resulting product is useless and there is no element of renewal. The products were monotonous. The students’ creation was not made variably because the results are uniform. The result of the product creation of students is not enough to overcome the problems that exist in human life and does not lead to the concept of Biology learning. Another problem is in the learning process, the teacher was appropriatless for using instructional media and teachers also do not apply a project-based learning model in the learning activities. Based on these problems, appropriate learning model is needed to improve the creativity of students in learning activities, especially in the utilization of waste into products. One of the learning model that can solve the problem that is project based learning model . RESEARCH METHOD brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by e-Journal Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Fatah (UIN Raden Fatah Palembang)