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This research aims at inquiring the effectiveness of teaching biology by using maps of thinking towards the tenth grade student's achievement and develop their visual thinking. The study is applied on (63) students distributed randomly into two groups, the experimental group and control group. The research appliedes the qusi-experimental method, and to achieve the purposes of the study, a test consisting of (30) items to measure the achievement of the sample population in the genetics topic, is used. There is also another test that consists of (20) items to measure visual thinking including five dimensions: visual position, and spatial relation, and interpretation of data, analyzing data, and the deduction of meaning. The study shows that there is a significant effect inteaching biology by using maps of thinking on achievement and developing. Visual thinking in favor of experimental groups. (Published abstract)