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  • Some of the reasons of the failure biology learning were the low students’ prior knowledge and reading interest. Biology learning strategies also has not empowered the students' critical thinking skills yet, which affected the low of cognitive learning outcomes. The learning model was required to increase students' reading interest and to empower critical thinking skills. Learning model that considered able to solve this problem is a model that combines reading, constructing concept maps, and the implementation cooperative learning Numbered Heads Together (Remap NHT) in the classroom. This study quasi experimental research compared the effect of Remap NHT model and traditional learning in biology classroom to empower critical thinking skills at Xth grade students of high school in Malang, Indonesia. The results showed that the implementation of Remap NHT during biology classroom showed the effect on students' critical thinking skills. Key words: concept map, critical thinking skill, learning model, number head together, reading