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The aim of this study is to explain The Effect of Two Strategies: 5E's Learning Cycle and Concept Mapping on Six Grade Female Students Acquisition of Critical Thinking Skills in the light of their Self Effectiveness. In this study the number of students in this sample (45)which have been chosen from primary six in Asia international schools, in the administration of private education, which divided in three classes, two experimental classes –the first one consists of (15)students that they depended on the five learning course. The second one consists of (15) student that their student deepened on conceptual maps. The third class is (the controlled class) that they have studied a traditional way. The three strategies has been distributed in a random way in the (3) class, and they all studied the human body and its heath, this test has been implicated to separate the students according to what they have studied (low-high). Before they started their studied and to reach the aim of this study, they have prepared for the necessary tools of this study from the teacher guide by reforming the human body unit and its health. From the science book for primary six, according to the five –learning course and conceptual maps, and to develop the critical thinking test which consists of twenty-eight paragraph from the choices the alternatives. The critical thinking skills tests have been implicated on the .three classes, before they stared it and after they have finished it directly. The self –efficacy tests has been implicated on the classes which consists of (30) paragraphs by choosing from the three alternative ways. And before they start with experiments which depends on their skills (low – high) To answer the question about this study ,we use the (MANCOVA), the Multi –affiliated students for signs of variables covariance analysis, for the student, mark in the three classes which depends on the critical thinking skills and using a completed way to comparisons dimensionality and the statistical analyzation (MANCONA) show the difference which have a significant which have a significant statistically (a= 0,05) between the averages of the student which have in the three groups. By the critical thinking tests which depends on the way of teaching, the result of this study show that the average of the student that have the critical thinking skills tests .and their study depended on the five -learning circle their marks was higher than the average of student that their study depends on the conceptual and the normal way. The results show that student which has high self-effectiveness shows the differences between the average of students and this study show the importance of connection between the ways of self –learning in critical thinking skills. This study show the importance of the five –learning course, conceptual maps and to use these ways on the other classes and other subjects and re-organize consists of science books which it will be suitable with this two strategies. (Published Abstract)