أثر الأنشطة الاستقصائية البيئية في تحصيل طالبات الصف الثامن المتوسط و تفكيرهن الإبداعي في مادة العلوم

Abstract EN

This study aimed at finding out the effect of environmental inquiry activities on the achievement of eighth grade female students and their creative thinking in science.

Two classes were chosen purposively and were distributed randomly into two groups: experimental (n = 25) female students, taught by environmental inquiry activities, and control group (n=23) female students, taught by the regular method.

Two valid and reliable tests were used : "Torrance Creative Thinking Test” which was adjusted for science course and an achievement test that was developed by the researchers.

The findings of the study showed that there were significant differences at (α≤0.05) between the two means of achievement attributed to teaching method of environmental inquiry activities and regular method in favor of the environmental inquiry activities.

Also there were significant differences at (α≤0.05) between the means of creative thinking skills and the total score, in favor of the experimental group that was taught by the environmental inquiry activities.