Dale’s Cone of Experience is a visual model that is composed of eleven (11) stages starting from concrete experiences at the bottom of the cone then it becomes more and more abstract as it reach the peak of the cone. Also, according to Dale, the arrangement in the cone is not based on its difficulty but rather based on abstraction and on the number of senses involved. The experiences in each stages can be mixed and are interrelated that fosters more meaningful learning.

1. CONE
OF
EXPERIENCE

2. 30 %
10 %
20 %
70 %
90 %
50 %
Define
Describe
List
ExplainDemonstrate
Apply Practice
Analyze
Design Create
Evaluate

3. Verbal Symbols.
Includes textbooks and other printed
materials and plain lecture about the
group.

4. Visual Symbols.
Contains graphs, cartoons, comic
strips and other visual symbols.

5. Recording, Radio, Still Picture.
Involves recording of folk songs
or conversations in the native
dialect and/ or still pictures
showing costumes or any
significant activities of the group.

6. Motion Pictures
It is about movies or films on a
certain group.

7. Educational Television
Televised lecture or show about
the group is an excellent tool to
raise awareness and shared
understanding.

8. Exhibits
Exhibits of artifacts, tools
costumes and other material
aspects of the culture is a good
type of educational media.

9. Study Trips
Conducting a field trip to a local
community is a tool towards
experiential learning.

10. Demonstrations.
Demonstration by an authority
or a resource person about
certain activities or rituals of the
group is a form of actual
learning.

11. Dramatized Experiences
Dramatization by some
members of the class who may
have done some research about
the cultural group is a result of
participatory learning

12. Contrived Experiences.
Simulating certain activities or
physical aspects of the local
culture so that the experiences
become more real is a valuable
way to learn and express one’s
learning.

13. Direct, Purposeful Experiences
Directly involving the class in
certain activities of the group
such as planting, harvesting,
praying and the like is both
experiential and participatory.

14. “Be BRAVE. Take
RISKS. Nothing can
substitute
EXPERIENCE.”