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The study aims at establishing a proposed strategy that is based on the theories of information processing and social learning to develop some ways of thinking in science, (namely, synthetic, practical, analytic, idealistic, and realistic thinking ways) among a sample of six grade primary pupils. The research tool is represented in measuring the ways of thinking in science in the second semester of the academic 2015-2016. The results of the study revealed the effectiveness of the proposed strategy in developing the ways of thinking, in a downward order according to the preferences of the study sample as follows: realistic, analytic, synthetic, idealistic, practical ways of thinking. The study recommended giving prominence to the development of thinking styles among primary students in different subjects and circulating the study results over a great population the primary students to highlight an appropriate ways of thinking profile for them. The study also recommended the necessity to establish proposed programs to contribute to the development of thinking ways among primary school students, especially in science.(Published Abstract)