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This study aimed at investigating the effect of teaching physics using authentic tasks on acquiring scientific concepts among the ninth grade female students and on their attitudes toward physics. The subjects of the study consisted of (104) basic ninth grade female students were chosen from one of the basic private schools in Amman. They were distributed into four groups, two of them were selected to be the experimental group which consisted of (52) female students, and were taught physics using authentic tasks, and the other two groups were selected to be control group which consisted of (52) female students, who were taught the same subject using the traditional method. Results revealed significant differences between the two groups in both acquiring scientific concepts and attitudes toward physics attributed to the teaching method in favor of the experimental group, and a positive correlation between acquiring scientific concepts and attitudes toward physics was existed. Based on these findings, appropriate recommendations, were suggested.