Education in Indonesia is gradually shifting from being oriented towards cognitive learning outcomes to 21st-century skills. Therefore, this study investigated the ability of the mind mapping techniques to affect students' creativity and cognitive learning outcomes. This pre-experimental study employed an intact-group comparison design with data collected from 68 eighth-grade students of SMP Negeri 5 Tanjungpinang. The students were selected for experimental and control groups based on the homogeneity and normality tests results. The instrument used to measure their creativity, and cognitive learning outcomes were easy and in multiple-choice tests. The result showed that the mind mapping technique has no effect on creativity but affects cognitive learning outcomes. Meanwhile, its simultaneous implementation affects both learning outcomes.

This research aims to describe the use of learning media for science in junior high schools in an integrated maritime context during the new normal era in Tanjungpinang City, Riau Archipelagos Province, Indonesia. The research was conducted by using a survey method involving 24 junior high school science teachers, and the questionnaire used was distributed through the google form platform. The results showed that 55% of teachers had not integrated the maritime context into science learning media because they are still not used to linking materials with the contexts, and not all materials is integrated with maritime contexts. However, some have already integrated it into the learning media such as the material for biotic and abiotic components of marine ecosystems, marine pollution and its prevention efforts, coral reef biodiversity, the application of Archimedes' law on ships.