This document discusses the advantages and types of audio visual aids that can be used for teaching and learning. It notes that audio visual aids help learners learn and remember information for longer, provide clarity and vividness to lessons, and make learning more interesting and meaningful. The document categorizes different types of projected aids like films, slides, and overhead projectors, as well as non-projected graphic aids, 3D models and objects, audio tools, and activity aids like field trips that enhance the learning process. General principles are outlined, such as that aids should be age-appropriate and not replace teaching.

1. AUDIO VISUAL AIDS

3. 1. help to learn more and remember for long
2. give reality and vividness to learning situations
3. motivate the learner
4. give clarity to learning
5. make the abstract concrete
6. reduce verbalism
7. provide variety in methods of teaching and learning
8. make learning interesting, meaningful and permanent
9. develop deeper understanding
10. arouse curiosity and stimulate self activity
Advantages of audio visual aids

4. General principles of using Audio Visual aids
• Not a substitute for teaching
• Aim should be to make learning more interesting and
effective
• Aids must be suited to the age and intellectual level of the
pupils
• realistic in nature
• economy of time, effort and money and the efficiency of
the aid should be the criteria for making the selection

6. PROJECTED AIDS
1. Films and Film Projector
2. Film strips and Filmstrip Projector
3. Slides and Slide Projector
4. Episcope and Epidiascope
5. Over head Projector
6. Television
7. LCD Projector

7. Episcope
Epidiascope
Over head Projector

8. NON-PROJECTED AIDS
Graphic Aids
1. Graphs
2. Diagrams
3. Posters
4. Maps
5.Cartoons
6. Comics
7. Flash Cards
8. Pictures & Photographs
9. Charts
10. Time line

9. 2. Display Boards
• Blackboard
• Roll-up Chalkboard
• Pegboard
• Hook and loop board
• Flannel board
• Magnetic board
• Plastigraph board
• Bulletin board

12. 3. Three - dimensional aids
i. Models
ii. Objects
iii. Specimen
iv. Mock-ups
v. Diorama
vi. Puppets

13. 4. Audio aids
i. Radio
ii. Tape Recorder
c. Activity Aids
i. Field Trips and Excursions
ii. Exhibition
iii. Demonstration
iv. Dramatization
v. Museum
vi. Planetarium
vii. Aquarium
viii. Terrarium
ix. Vivarium