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This article draws on community services led by Lectures from the Department of Chemistry of Terbuka University (UT), Indonesia. The activities have involved teachers of chemistry in Tigaraksa High Schools. All the teachers took active participations in guidedlaboratory activities through practicing SSCS Instructional model. This model constitutes an enquiry method encompassing four scientific phases of Search, Solve, Create and Share. The SSCS model was introduced to the teachers prior to their practicing laboratory activities. Through the Search phase, a video was presented to teachers showing a lesson on how a red cabbage can be used as a natural indicator for acids-bases titration processes. The teachers continuedon moving forwards onto the other phases while teaching the topic of Titrations. The result indicated that in general (over 71%) the teachers consented that this method has been an effective vehicle to bring the environment into in-laboratory activities while teaching Titration topic of using natural materials. Through the lab activities, it was found that red cabbage is a pH indicator indicated by the shifting colors from red (at pH of 2) to purple (at pH of 3-6) and stop at blue color (at pH of 7-9). The color of Purple comes from Sianidin including anthocyanin aglyconeanthocyanidins, which is formed through hydrolyzed with acid. Finally, it was found that this enquiry method of SSCS has become an effective model for guiding teachers in integrating the environment into laboratory activities while teaching the topic of Titration.