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The purpose of the study is to examine the gifted children's changes of investigation skills as they hadexperienced investigation activities from an IIM program, which was developed by Cindy Nottage andVirginia Morse(2003). Based on an IIM program, the worksheets for learning investigation methodsthrough 7 steps were developed and applied to 15 children in a Grade 5 Gifted Science Class. Duringthe program, the children investigated the three topics for 6 weeks. The children's worksheets andproducts were analyzed in terms of 9 criteria for investigation skills. The results showed that children'sinvestigation skills could be enhanced according to increasing investigation experiences.