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There is an urgent need felt by the researcher to improve methods and models and strategies used in the teaching of physics of the fourth grade year, which made him think to use discrepant events one of the ways in which played an important role in the achievement of other materials may it contribute to the development of achievement and creative thinking among those students. The current research aims to investigate the effect of use discrepant events in the achievement of fourth grade year in physics and creative thinking. Searching is limited to a sample of fourth graders General of the first semester of the academic year 2008 / 2009. The content includes three chapters of physics book of the fourth grade year . The number of sample subjects (61) students divided into three divisions were selected one at random to represent the experimental group by (31) students have studied according to the way events contradictory and represented the second group by (30) students in the control group have studied according to the method of regular and after exclusion of a student repeaters, the number of students (60) students spread by (30) students in the same group. The two groups were equal in the three variables are age in months, and intelligence collection and a former physics marks research after completing requirements in terms of scientific material and to identify behavioral objectives, formulation and preparation of lesson plans. The researcher developed a research tools and are the achievement test in physics where the number of paragraphs (20) paragraph of the type of multiple-choice test measure creative thinking, where the researcher adopted a measure prepared by the researcher (Elham Ahmed) -which has been submitted to a panel of experts was to keep it unchanged consists of a (123) items which is divided into six sections to measure creative thinking skills, namely: (fluency, flexibility and originality). The researcher concluded the following: There is a statistically significant difference between the degrees of the experimental group which studied according to the method of discrepant events and degrees of control group which studied according to the traditional way in each of the achievement test and test creative thinking for the benefit of the experimental group. The researcher presented a series of recommendations and proposals including the use of this method in the teaching of physics and open training courses for teachers on how to use and application of modern methods of teaching and a comparative study between the method of discrepant events and other educational methods. (Published abstract)