Visual symbols include drawings, cartoons, diagrams, charts, graphs, and maps. They are more clearly understood than text alone. Drawings, cartoons, and strip drawings can be used to motivate students or illustrate concepts. Diagrams show relationships and include affinity, tree, and fishbone diagrams. Charts organize information and include time charts, flow charts, organizational charts, and Pareto charts. Graphs depict quantitative data visually, through pie graphs, bar graphs, and picture graphs. Maps show spatial relationships and include physical, relief, economic, and political maps. Visual symbols convey information more effectively than text alone.

2. VISUAL SYMBOLS are representations of direct
reality, which comes in the form of signs and
symbols.
“Visual symbols worth a thousand words”
VISUALS SYMBOLS include drawings, cartoons,
strips drawings, diagrams, formulas, charts,
graphs, maps, and globes. They are more clearly
understood than mere words.

4. A.DRAWINGS
- the art or act of making figure,
plan, or sketch by means of lines.
- it may not be real thing but better to
have a concrete visual aid than nothing.
One essential skill that the TEACHER
should possess is drawing. It helps you a
lot if you are capable of doing simple
freehand sketching.

6. B. CARTOONS
- another kind of visual symbols. It
tells its story metaphorically. The perfect
cartoons need no caption. The symbolism
conveys its message.
- it could also be used as springboard
for a lesson or a concluding activity.
* They usually appear in newspaper and in
magazines.

7. SAMPLES

8. C. STRIP DRAWINGS
- commonly called comics or comic
strip. it is educational and entertaining at
the same time.
- it can also serve as motivation and
starter of the lesson. It can also be given as
an activity for students to express insights
gained at the conclusion of the lesson.

9. SAMPLES

10. D. DIAGRAMS
- any line drawing that shows
arrangement and relations as of parts to the
whole, relative values, origins and
development, chronological, fluctuations, and
distributions.
* the word DIAGRAM is sometimes used as
a synonyms for GRAPH.

11. TYPES OF DIAGRAMS
 AFFINITY DIAGRAM
-used to cluster complex
apparently unrelated data into natural and
meaningful groups.
SAMPLES

12. TREE DIAGRAM
- used to chart out, in increasing detail,
the various task that must be
accomplished to complete a project or
achieve a specific objective.
SAMPLE

13.  FISHBONE DIAGRAM
- it is also called as cause-and-effect
diagram. It is structured form of
brainstorming that graphically shows the
relationship of possible causes and sub-
causes directly related to an identified
effect/ problem.
* Commonly used to analyze work-related
problems.

15. E. CHARTS
- is a diagrammatic representation of
relationships among individuals within an
organizations.
Examples of chart
a.Time chart
b.Tree or stream chart
c.Flow chart
d.Organizational chart
e.Comparison and contrast chart
f. Gannt chart

16.  TIME CHART
-tabular time chart presents data in
ordinal sequence.

17.  TREE OR STREAM CHART
- Depicts development growth
and change by beginning with a
simple course with spread outs into
many branches.

19.  FLOW CHART
-visual way of charting or
showing a process from beginning
to end. It means of analyzing a
process. By outlining every step in
a process, you can begin to
inefficiencies or problems.

21.  ORGANIZATIONAL CHART
- shows how one part of the
organization relates to other parts of
the organization.

25.  PARETO CHART
- type of a bar chart, prioritized
in descending order or magnitude or
importance from left to right.

27.  GANNT CHART
-it is an activity time chart.

28. E. GRAPHS
-pictures that help us
understand amounts. These
amounts are so called data.

29.  CIRCLE GRAPH
-is shaped like a circle. It is
divided into fractions that look like
pieces of pie, so sometimes a circle
graph is called pie graph. Many
times the fractional parts are different
colors and a key explain the colors.

31.  BAR GRAPH
- uses bar to show data. The
bars can be vertical (up and
down ), horizontal (across). The
data can be words or numbers.

33.  PICTURE GRAPH
- uses pictures or symbols to
show data. One picture often
stands for more than one vote so a
key is necessary to understand the
symbols.

35. F. MAPS
-is visual representation of an
area
- a symbolic depiction
highlighting relationships between
elements of that space such as
objects, regions, and themes.

37. PHYSICAL MAP
-combines in a single
projection data like altitude,
temperature, rainfall,
precipitation, vegetation and
soil.

39. RELIEF MAP
-has three dimensional
representations and show
contours the physical data of the
earth or part of the earth.

41. COMMERCIAL OR
ECONOMIC MAP
- also called product or
industrial map since they show
land areas in relation to the
economy

43. POLITICAL MAP
-Gives detailed information
about the country, provinces,
towns, roads and highways.
Oceans, rivers and lakes are the
main features of political map.