<![CDATA[The urgency of this research is to develop interactive socio-scientific issues-based media to enhance students’ engagement and understanding in science learning. This study was motivated by students’ low understanding of science learning, particularly the topics of elements, compounds, and mixtures, as well as the limited use of interactive and contextual digital learning media. Therefore, interactive learning media based on Socio-Scientific Issues (SSI) assisted by the Articulate Storyline application was developed. This study aimed to describe the validity and practicality levels of the developed media. The research method used was Research and Development (R&D) with the ADDIE model, which includes the Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate stages. The research instruments consisted of material-expert and media-expert validation sheets using a 1–5 Likert scale, as well as a student-response questionnaire using a 1–5 Likert scale to measure media practicality. The population consisted of all Grade VIII students at SMP Negeri 1 Rejotangan, with a limited trial sample of 32 students from one class. The validators consisted of three material experts and three media experts. The results showed that the developed media obtained a material-expert validation percentage of 84.25% in the valid category and a media-expert validation percentage of 81.2% in the valid category. The practicality test based on the student-response questionnaire obtained 86.37% in the highly practical category. Thus, the SSI-based interactive learning media assisted by Articulate Storyline on the topics of elements, compounds, and mixtures was declared valid and highly practical and therefore suitable for use as science learning media for Grade VIII junior high school students. The implication of this study is that the media can serve as an alternative for science teachers to provide more contextual learning by connecting socio-scientific issues, thereby supporting conceptual understanding as well as students’ sensitivity to problems in their surrounding environment. In addition, the findings can serve as a reference for future researchers to develop similar media for other science topics or to examine its effectiveness on student learning outcomes on a broader scale.]]>
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