<![CDATA[The purpose of this study was to determine the validity and effectiveness of visual flash media card on the material living creatures interaction with the environment that will be developed. Research development refers to the steps of learning development model of Plomp which consists of five stages: stage a preliminary investigation (preliminary investigation), stage design (design), the realization phase of construction (realization of construction), the stage of the test, evaluation and revision (test, evaluation and revition) and the implementation phase (implementation). The resulting product is a visual media flash card. The research instrumen used is divided into two, namely the validity of the instrumen that includes sheets of flash card validation visual media and the effectiveness of the instrumen includes questionnaire responses of learners and the learning outcomes test. Subjects in this study are students of class VII SMP Negeri 1 Palangga the academic year 2015/2016 as many as 43 people. Data collection techniques used were questionnaires and learning outcomes test. Analysis validation of visual media flash card by two validators were obtained an average yield of 4, which means valid. Based on the analysis of questionnaire responses of learners with a result 86% of students stated that visual media flash card either once used in the learning process. Based on the test of learning outcomes of students grade VII obtained results that 40 students achieve mastery value of 70 with a percentage 93%. Based on the result it can be concluded that the visual media flash card effective to be used in science learning for material interaction between living creatures with their environment.]]>
