Visual symbols like drawings, cartoons, diagrams and charts can help teach complex concepts. Drawings directly represent real things, while cartoons use metaphor. Diagrams show relationships and organization through lines and positioning. Common diagrams include tree, fishbone, affinity and flow charts. Charts organize data through tables, timelines, flow processes and comparisons. Graphs visualize numerical data through bars, circles, pictures and maps show real world locations and features through symbols, scales, colors and geographic grids. Together, visual symbols make abstract ideas more concrete and aid student understanding of lessons.

1. Teaching with
Visual Symbols

2. Visual symbols
-Representations of direct reality, which comes in the form of signs
and symbols.The visual aids are what help the students understand
what the lesson is all about.
-There are different kinds of visual symbols. These include drawings,
cartoons, strip drawings, diagrams, charts, graphs and maps.

3. Kinds of
Visual Symbols

4. A. DRAWINGS
- Concrete visual or a representation of
a real thing. It helps illustrating our
lecture through freehand sketching in a
chalkboard.

5. Samples

6. B.CARTOONS
- Another kind of visual symbol. It tells
its story metaphorically. The perfect
cartoon needs no caption. The
symbolism conveys the message.
-It could also be used as a springboard
for a lesson or a concluding activity.

7. SAMPLES

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

10. D. DIAGRAMS drawing
- Any line
that shows
arrangement and relations as of parts to the
whole, relative values, origins and development,
chronological fluctuations, distributions, etc. –
DALE
The word GRAPH is sometimes used as
a synonym for diagram.

11. Types of a Diagram

12. •Affinity Diagram
- used to cluster complex apparently
unrelated data into natural and
meaningful groups.
- is a tool that gathers large amounts
of language data (ideas, opinions, issues)
and organizes them into groupings based
on their natural relationships .

14. Tree Diagram
- Used to chart out, in increasing
details, the various tasks that must be
accomplished to complete a project or
achieve a specific objective.

16. Fishbone Diagram
- Also called cause-and-effect diagram.
It is a structured form of brainstorming
that graphically shows the relationship
of possible causes and sub causes directly
related to an identified effect/problem.
It is most commonly used to analyze
work-related problems.

18. E. CHARTS
- diagrammatic representation of
relationships within an organizations.
• Time Chart
• Tree or Stream Chart
• Flow Chart
• Organizational Chart
• Comparison and Contrast Chart
• Pareto Chart

19. Time Chart
- tabular time chart that
presents data in ordinal sequence.

21. Tree or Stream Chart
-depicts development, growth
and change by beginning with a
simple course with spread outs into
many branches.

23. Flowchart
- visual way of charting or
showing a process from beginning
to end. It is a means of analyzing a
process. By outlining every step in
a process, you can begin to find
inefficiencies or problems.

25. Organizational Chart
- shows how one part of the
organization relates to other
parts of the organization.

27. Comparison and Contrast Chart
A compare and contrast
chart used to evaluate
the similarities and
differences between two
subject or objects.

28. Comparison and Contrast
Chart

29. Pareto chart
- type of bar chart,
prioritized in descending order
of magnitude or importance
from left to right.

31. F. GRAPHS
- pictures that help us
understand
amounts.
These amounts are
called data.

32. 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 a pie graph.
Many times the fractional parts
are different colors and a key
explains the colors.

34. Bar Graph
- uses bars to show data. The
bars can be vertical (up and
down), or horizontal (across). The
data can be in words or
numbers.

36. Auses pictures or symbols to show
- Picture Graph
data. One picture often stands for
more than one vote so a key is
necessary to understand the
symbols.

38. GRAPHIC
ORGANIZER
-you met several
graphic organizers in
your subject, principles
of teaching.

39. Samples

40. Map/Maps
-Maps represent the surface of the
earth. Different kinds of maps can
be used depending on what the
lesson is about.

41. Kinds of Map
•RELIEF MAP
•PHYSICAL MAP
•COMMERCIAL or
ECONOMIC MAP
•POLITICAL MAP

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

43. Philippines RELIEF MAP

44. PHYSICAL MAP
combine in a single projection data
like altitude, temperature, rainfall,
precipitation, vegetation and soil.

45. PHYSICAL WORLD
MAP

46. COMMERCIAL or
ECONOMIC MAP
Also called product or
industrial map since they
show land areas in relation to
the economy.

47. COMMERCIAL or
ECONOMIC MAP

48. POLITICAL MAP
Gives detailed information about country,
provinces, cities and towns, roads and
highway. Oceans, rivers and lakes are
themain features of most political maps.

49. WORLD POLITICAL MAP

50. MAP LANGUAGE
• SCALE- shows how much of the actual
earth’s surface is represented by a
given measurement on a map. The
scale must be shown so thet the map
reader can use the distances and
areas shown on the map.
1 inch = 15 statute miles
SYMBOLS- usually a map has a legend
that explains what each symbol
means. Some symbols represent

51. • COLOR- the different colors of the map
are part of the map language.
GEOGRAPHIC GRIDS- the entire system of
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these grid lines are called grid lines. These
grid lines are called mrridians and parallels.
Meridian-north to south pole line.
Parallels- lines drawn around a globe with
allpoints.
Longitude- distance in degrees of any place
east or west of the prime meridian.
Latitude- distance in degrees of any place
north and south of the equator.

52. Submitted by:
Ricalyn T. Obal
Student
Submitted to:
Mary Gene I. Panes
Professor