Next Gen Choice: Science for Junior High School is especially designed based on the Kurikulum Merdeka to develop students’ critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration skills. It presents science concepts clearly and guides students to explore them in ways that are easy to understand and relevant to daily life. As a future ready textbook, Next Gen Choice uses a simple, clear, and meaningful approach that connects learning to everyday experiences, helping students see Science as a whole and making every learning experience mindful, meaningful, and joyful. 

It offers features including: 

Learning Objectives: Clearly articulate science competencies, Deep Learning, and future-ready thinking skills. 
Keywords: Support precise science language and clear communication, strengthening conceptual understanding. 
Concept Map: Develop critical thinking and abstraction by visualizing relationships among science ideas. 
Inquiry Question: Foster problem formulation, curiosity, and reasoning. 
Examples: Model employing science through conceptual and procedural reasoning in contextualized situations. 
Exercises: Provide formative practice to build characters, perseverance, and accuracy, while reinforcing science reasoning. 
HOTS (Higher-Order Thinking Skills): Strengthen analysis, evaluation, and creative problem-solving, aligned with developmental cognitive and metacognitive skills. 
Activity: Promote collaboration and communication through discussion, simulation, group work, and shared problem-solving. 
Knowledge Kernel: Highlight essential conceptual understandings that support transferable numeracy across contexts. 
Chapter Summary: Support reflection and sense-making, helping students consolidate learning and recognize patterns. 
End-of-Chapter Assessment: Assess students’ ability to formulate, employ, and interpret science through multiple choice, multiple-response, and essay questions, completed individually or collaboratively. 
Collaborative Project: Integrate citizenship, creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication through authentic, cross-disciplinary problem contexts reflecting real-world numeracy demands and to promote student agency. 
Deep Learning Approach: Represented through Mindful Learning, Meaningful Learning, and Joyful Learning, supporting the learning cycle of understanding, applying, and reflecting. 
Reflection: Strengthen metacognition, ethical reasoning, and self-direction, enabling students to evaluate strategies, improve decision-making, and set meaningful learning goals.