This qualitative study aims to obtain an overview of the current situation of instructional media use, and learning media needs formulation in science teaching process in junior high school by understanding their accessibility potential by knowledge, types of media used, and to state their perceptions to adopt media in science teaching on the static electricity and digestive system materials. The participants are 20 teachers and students in three junior high schools around Surakarta. The data were collected through two parts of electronic questionnaire during the odd semester of 2019/2020 academic year. The results indicated that 1) the current instructional media use in the science learning process has not been carried out optimally since they have the convenience of choosing and using variations of media. 2) There are challenges in the material delivery of abstract, conceptual, and procedural materials since the teacher needs a media to visualize the process and explain it correctly in and so that students have detail conceptions about the process. 3) There is a need for learning media to be developed in science learning, especially in form of audiovisual media. This result can be a consideration in developing science learning media for junior high school.