<![CDATA[The purpose of this research is to improve students' critical thinking skillsthrough the application of integrated learning and accompanied by contextual-basedinstructional media on social studies subject in junior high school. This research is aclassroom action research. The subjects were social studies' teacher and students of 8Bclass in SMP N 11 Surakarta. Data collection techniques in this study are observation,questionnaire, and test. The data analysis technique used are the comparative analysistechnique, technique of quantitative and qualitative analysis. This research was conductedin three cycles. Based on the data obtained from cycle I to cycle III, the researchshows that the implementation of the integrated learning can increase students' criticalthinking skills. The third cycle shows the following condition: 71.79% of students gavehigh responses to learning undertaken by teachers, 20.5% gave medium responses, and7.67% gave low responses. Student's achievement in cycle III shows that 76.92% of thestudents got grades above 70 and as much as 23.08% obtained score below 70. Succesindicators in this study was reached at the third cycle.]]>
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