Two Levels of Scientific Curiosity and Understanding of the Nature of Science among middle school students in Mosul

At a time when educational institutions seek to develop many positive characteristics for students personality,including the two characteristics of scientific curiosity and understanding the nature of science, to increase his ambition and readiness for later educational stages, the current research has reached a low result in the two levels of these two characteristics of the research sample represented by For middle class second-grade students from Mosul city schools.
Two tools (scientific curiosity and understanding the nature of science) were applied after verifying their psychometric properties on a sample of (482) male and female students, and in light of this result, the two researchers reached several conclusions, the most prominent of which is that the reason for this decline may be due to the inefficiency of the science curriculum. Which is taught in the second intermediate grade, as it is the subject most concerned with developing scientific curiosity and understanding the nature of science from other subjects because it consists of three subjects (chemistry, physics and biology), and therefore the researchers presented a number of recommendations and proposals related to this result.