The study investigates the effectiveness of the Connecting, Organizing, Reflecting, and Extending (CORE) learning model on enhancing creative thinking skills among eighth-grade students at an Islamic junior high school in East Lampung. Utilizing a quasi-experimental design, results showed a medium effect size of 0.48 for the CORE model in improving students' creative thinking abilities in a sound waves context. The study concluded that the CORE model is an effective approach to foster creative thinking in physics education, providing a structured method for teachers to apply in their classrooms.