<![CDATA[Students' interest in learning may be enhanced through an attractive learning design. An attractive learning design can improve the quality of student understanding, where improvement can be assessed from the effectiveness of learning. Aspects that can affect the effectiveness of learning are learning curriculum, facilities, and teacher quality. Of the three aspects, the aspect of facilities is often a problem in schools. One example of limited school facilities is the inadequacy of the Natural Sciences Laboratory. Public Junior High School (SMPN) 17 Balikpapan is one of the schools which is constrained in the aspect of facilities where it only has one Science Laboratory so that the practicum is only carried out occasionally. Therefore, community service is carried out at SMPN 17 Balikpapan through the "Introduction to simple applied science to increase interest in science" program in which it is hoped that students' knowledge and interest in science will increase. To increase the knowledge and interest of students in science, a simple hands-on module is implemented. Before doing practicum, students are first given science material in the form of basic theory related to the experiment to be carried out. Evaluation of the activity was carried out by conducting a post-test on students in the class that was the target of the program (VII G) and the comparison class (VII A). The evaluation results showed that class VII G got a higher average score than class VII A, but class VII A got a score ≥ 75 which had a higher percentage. Field findings show that the addition of practical modules in learning methods has a positive impact on students' learning motivation. This simply did not have a significant impact on the team's expected achievement objectives, with only 6.9% achieving a score of 75.]]>
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