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The study aimed to explore the effectiveness of using scamper strategy to develop scientific creative thinking skills and academic achievement in science subject among a selected sample of the second intermediate class pupils in Saudi Arabia. The sample consisted of 113 pupils divided into two groups: the experimental group (n=55) that studied the selected subject material "plants" according to scamper strategy, and the control group (n=58) that studied the same subject material following the traditional method. An achievement test was prepared in the subject selected as well as a test for the scientific creative thinking skills. Both instruments were administered pre and post the intervention. The study results indicated that there were significant statistical differences at 0.01 level between the score means of the experimental group and those of the control group on the tests of academic achievement and scientific creative thinking skills (each skill separately and the test as a whole), in favor of the experimental group. A significant positive correlation between achievement and scientific creative thinking was found within the experimental group, whereas no statistical significant correlation between them was found among the control group pupils. (Published abstract)