The effect of using brainstorming in Achievement and developing of scientific thinking in the course of science to seventh grade students in Saud Kharji School, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Abstract

This research aims to identify the difference between the method of brainstorming and lecture, in Achievement and developing of scientific thinking in the course of science to seventh grade students in Saud Kharji School, So the researcher used the experimental method and the research sample consisted of seventh-graders, were selected simple random way, were divided into two groups of 20 students per group, one of them experimental were been taught according to the method of brainstorming and the other one was a control group taught according to the method of lecture.

The researcher took into account the provision of internal and external safety of the experiment, the researcher prepared educational program consisting of 32 educational units distributed to 16 educational units for each group, as the program was implemented in a way brainstorming for the experimental group and the lecture for control group .And by two units a week. After the completion of the implementation of the program was conducted two tests grades and scientific thinking and after data acquisition and processing means of statistical tests the (t) for independent samples equal number, it has been getting some results, The researcher recommended after that by using the method of brainstorming as the better method than the lecture in the achievement of science course and the development of scientific thinking.

Keywords’: Brainstorming, Scientific Thinking, Achievement, Experimental Method, Lecture Method, Educational Program.