The ability to think spatially and mitigation knowledge is very important in everyday life. Problems involving the field of education in Indonesia are less than maximum classroom learning. Geography teachers learn to accept effective models in learning. Research Objectives Obtain appropriate and more effective learning methods that are useful in improving the ability to use spatial thinking and knowledge of disaster mitigation materials. Research Type: quasi-experimental. The research subjects

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... ere students of class XI IPS SMA N 2 Ponorogo. Measurement Increased spatial thinking skills and knowledge gained from normalization calculations. The results obtained normalization of the spatial thinking ability of the experimental class 52% and 37% control class. The results of the experimental class knowledge 58% and 43% control class. Independent T-test shows that Probleam-based learning has improved for the better.