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Inscriptions can help students understand science concept easily, and arouse students' curiosity. Inaddition they can help remembering things more longer. The inscriptions used in the textbook arevaluable material for understanding science contents and promote the learning. This study investigatedthe traits (function, type, and numbers) of inscriptions presented in 8th grade science textbooksdeveloped under the 7th National Curriculum. The types of inscriptions include photograph, graph,table, cartoon, drawing, map, etc. The functions of inscriptions include decorative, explanatory,illustrative, complementary, summary, and worksheet. The results revealed that the numbers ofinscriptions per pages were 2.02. The most prevalent type of the inscriptions was photograph, becausethe photographs showed the real phenomena. In the function of inscriptions, and complementaryfunction was found most frequently. The use of caption and index differs according to the textbookpublishers. The importance of inscriptions should be perceived, and the inscriptions should be usedcorrectly according to the types and the functions.