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This paper aims at: 1) building production-planning unit using e-mind maps among a sample search students. 2) Measuring the effectiveness of the use of e-mind maps in developing academic achievement for the unit of production planning for sample students. 3) Measuring the effectiveness of the use of e-mind maps in developing creative thinking among sample students. 4) Measuring the relationship between creative thinking and academic achievement for the unity of production planning among sample students. To achieve the objectives of the research, the following research tools were built: 1) preparation of planning and management production unit tailored according to the criteria of e-mid maps program (e mind maps 7.9) (prepared by the researcher). 2) Achievement test to measure the cognitive aspects of the production unit of production planning and management for the students of the second grade secondary industrial schools (researcher). 3) Measuring creative thinking (formal aspects-b). (Prepared by Torrance). The research sample was chosen from among the second grade secondary industrial students (cooling section and air-conditioning) Damanhur secondary mechanical school- Buhaira governorate. It consists of (81) students, who were divided into two groups; an experimental group and consist of (39) students (studying the selected unit using e-mind maps), and the other group is the control group, it consist of (42) students (studying the selected unit using the traditional method). This paper came to the following conclusions: 1) it confirmed the effectiveness of the use of e-mind maps in the developing academic achievement of production planning and management among the students of sample group. 2) It also confirmed the effectiveness of the use of e-mind maps in the performance of creative thinking skills development such as (fluency - flexibility - originality - elaboration- and creative thinking skills in general) among the students of sample group. 3) The results pointed to the presence of a statistically significant positive correlation between creative thinking and academic achievement of the unit selected among the students of sample group. (Published abstract)