The effect of employing digital stories in teaching home economics to develop lateral thinking and self-worth of middle school students

The study aimed to identify the effect of employing digital stories on the subject of home economics on developing lateral thinking skills and dimensions of self-esteem among middle school students. The research sample consisted of (60) second intermediate classes. The students and the researcher prepared research tools to measure dependent variables, which is a test of lateral thinking skills.
Self-merit scale, digital stories for lessons, teacher's guide, activity handbook, and quasi-experimental curriculum were prepared in an experimental design. Two experimental groups were used, one of which was studied using digital stories in teaching, and it numbered 30 students, and the other was studied by the usual method (control group) for 30 students.
And resulted in the results of the study revealed that there were statistically significant differences at the level (α ≤ 0.05) between the mean scores of the students in the two groups (experimental and control), in the test of lateral thinking as a whole and his skills in the post application in favor of the experimental group, and the scale of self-efficacy and its dimensions in the post application. In favor of the experimental group, there is also a statistically correlational relationship at the level (α ≤ 0.05) between the students ’scores in the lateral thinking skills and the dimensions of the self in the post application of the experimental group students. The research sample in the subject of home economics