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The current research aims at identifying : The Impact of Harvesting Strategy in Developing Smart Thinking among Students at Literary Fourth Grade in History. The research population represented by the fourth grade literary students who are registered at the General Directory of Education in Diyala Governorate , the researcher intentionally selected Al-Marqaziya Preparatory for Boys and specifically the fourth grade literary students to conduct the experiment and by simple random sampling . Thus, section (A) is selected to be the experimental group to taught the history of Arab Islamic civilization according to the harvesting strategy, in the amount of 30 students while section (B) is represented the control group, who taught in the traditional way, in the amount of 30 students , The researcher chose an experimental design for his study , i.e. quasi experimental, and two groups are specified which are experimental and control groups with pre-test and - post- tests. An equivalence has been done between the two groups in the number of variables including (chronological age, academic level of achievement for fathers, academic level of achievement for mothers, pre- test of smart thinking, students' scores test scores in history of the (2014-2015( , Where the statistics proved an equivalence of the two groups in these variables. In order to measure the smart thinking, the researchers used smart thinking scale for measuring the development of smart thinking for two groups through applying (pre –test and post-test) and extract the difference to identify the development of this thinking , The statistical method (SPSS) is used to identify the significance of differences between pre-test and post-test, thus the results proved that there are statistically significant differences at the level (0.05) between the mean scores of the experimental group students who are taught history of Arab-Islamic civilization according to the harvesting strategy and the mean scores of the control group students who are taught the same material in the traditional way in the pre-test and the mean scores in the post-test according to smart thinking scale. In light of the results of the experiment a number of recommendations and proposals are set forward. (Published Abstract)