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This study aimed to detect the effectiveness of imagination strategy in teaching biology for the development of reflective thinking for second grade female secondary school in the city of Makkah. To achieve the aims of the study The researcher used a quasi-experimental method, and prepared the Learning materials which is teacher's guide and the student's workbook based on the imagination strategy, also prepared a test of reflective thinking on the content of chapters 5and 6, of the second grade secondary school first semester biology syllabus, the validity and stability of the tools was confirmed, then they were applied in pre and post on the study sample, (N=70) which was divided to two groups: one that learned by using imagination strategy and the control group that learned by using the traditional method. The T-test was used to identify the differences among the study groups in the two post-test, and by using Eta Square to measure the effect size of the experimental variable, the study reached the following result: There were an effectiveness of imagination strategy in teaching biology for the development of reflective thinking for second grade female secondary school in the city of Makkah. Based on the result of the study, the researcher suggested a number of recommendations the most important of them was: Encourage (female) teachers to use the imagination strategy in teaching biology and in other disciplines to develop learner's reflective thinking, the researcher also suggested further studies related to imagination strategies complement the study subject. (Published abstract)