Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui karakteristik dan menganalisis kelayakan media pembelajaran ipa berbasis macromedia flash 8 pada materi struktur dan fungsi jaringan tumbuhan untuk kelas viii smpn di tarakan. media pembelajaran ipa berbasis macromedia flash 8 yang dikembangkan menggunakan model pengembangan sutopo. model sutopo memiliki enam tahap, namun penelitian ini dibatasi sampai pada tahap ke lima yaitu testing. media yang dikembangkan divalidasi oleh tiga validator yaitu satu ahli media, satu ahli materi dan satu ahli praktisi (guru biologi). uji coba lapangan dilakukan di sekolah smp di tarakan pada kelas viii-i sebanyak 33 siswa. hasil validasi ahli media mendapatkan nilai persentase 93% dengan kriteria sangat layak, ahli materi mendapatkan peresentase 73% dengan kriteria cukup layak, ahli praktisi (respon guru) mendapatkan peresentse 94 % dengan kriteria sangat layak dan uji coba lapangan utama respon siswa mendapatkan nilai persentase 87% dengan kriteria sangat layak.

This research aims to know the characteristic and analyze appropriateness the science learning media based macromedia flash 8 on the lesson about structure and function of plant tissue for viii grade at junior high school in tarakan. the science interactive based macromedia flash 8 developed use luther development model. luther model has six step, but in this research limited until the fifth step, that is testing. this media developed and validated by five validator that are two media experts, one material expert and two practitioners (biology teacher) the field trial did at smp negeri 4 tarakan on the viii-i grade with total 33 students. media expert got the result 93% with the criteria is worthy, materials expert got the percentage 73% with the criteria is very worthy. practitioner expert (teacher respon) got the percentage 94% with the criteria is very worthy and the students first field trials got the percentage 87% with the criteria very worthy.