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Background and objective: Numerous flood disaster events encourage mitigation efforts. One of the efforts is education to high school and college students through a project-based learning (PjBL) model during COVID-19. The PjBL innovation can be developed by teachers with a formulation that integrates it with learning media and higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) as the measured parameter. Methods: The research goal is to analyze high school and college students’ HOTS, learning media, and the PjBL model. Learning method employed in the research is descriptive. The HOTS instrument was developed according to Anderson's taxonomy to measure the ability of high school and college students. Results: The research results indicated that the HOTS score of the high school and college students was very low at 28.29 and 46.01, respectively. The research results suggested an improvement of the HOTS by developing a learning medium to enhance students’ HOTS. In addition, the results of the study also showed that the role of teachers and lecturers was very important in facilitating the use of learning media. Conclusion: Teachers and lecturers in this context must be able to facilitate the formation of loving behavior towards the environment. The learning media will be a content supplement for the primary, secondary, and higher education in learning flood concepts. Based on the results, the conclusion is that high school and college students’ HOTS score is in a low category and all aspects of learning media can be integrated with PjBL. © 2022 by the Society for People, Plants, and Environment.
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COVID-19 harms the implementation of learning at various levels, including at Islamic universities. Students at Islamic universities must use e-learning for several months until the COVID-19 outbreak ends. Students are also required to have Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) to solve problems. They are also required to have Pro-Environmental Behavior (PEB) related to COVID-19. Previous research has developed a Higher-Order Thinking Skills Assessment based on Environmental Problem (HOTS-AEP). The purpose of this research was to describe an implementation of e-learning, HOTS, and PEB on students during the COVID-19 outbreak. The method used was descriptive through the survey technique. This research was conducted in March 2020. The instruments used were questionnaires on e-learning and HOTS-AEP related to COVID-19 (HOTS-AEP-COVID-19). Meanwhile, to measure PEB, PEB-COVID-19 was used. All instruments were constructed using Google Form and were distributed to 137 respondents via social media. The results showed that the implementation of e-learning was generally effective (27.74%) and quite effective (43.07%) even though some problems were encountered. Other results showed that students’ HOTS were in the poor category (26.20) while the PEB was in the excellent category (84.82). it can be concluded that e-learning during the COVID-19 outbreak has gone well although some innovations are needed. Besides that, HOTS needs to be improved while PEB needs to be maintained.
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Environmental learning about recycling focuses on the problem of waste accumulation and sustainable use of the earth's resources. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has made the adoption of e-learning the “new normal”. One method of e-learning that can be developed to support environmental lessons is the Environmental Supplement Book of Recycling (ESBOR) learning media. This study analyzed the students’ environmental attitudes on recycling in an effort to develop the ESBOR ecause attitude is very important to implement knowledge. The research method used was the descriptive survey technique. A total of 235 students was contacted randomly in various cities in Indonesia using Google Form. The results showed that the attitude of students was already in a very high category. This indicated that the ESBOR learning media may be developed to support e-learning amid the pandemic. ESBOR is an innovation of 21st century learning, which will be vital in the near future. The ESBOR learning media has great potential and may be developed as a supplemental method for students to gain knowledge. The suggestions can be used to develop ESBOR in future research. © 2020. Portland Press Limited. All Rights Reserved.