Project-based learning on ethnoscience setting to improve students’ scientific literacy

Scientific literacy is still to be a problem for students worldwide. Even though this competency is very important for students to take an important role in science, technology and society advancement. This study has analyzed effect of the project-based learning by using ethnoscience learning sources of Banjarese traditional food on students’ scientific literacy. By using Pre-test-Post-test Nonequivalent Control Group Design, the study involved 35 and 33 senior high school students as a control and an experimental group respectively. The experimental group applied project-based learning, while, the control group used expository learning strategy. This study concluded that students’ scientific literacy of experimental group was significantly higher than the control group one. The students’ scientific literacy in both classes increased from the low to high categories. It needs to be explored more broadly other elements of ethnoscience to improve the meaningful learning and students’ scientific literacy.