The document describes Edgar Dale's Cone of Experience, which arranges various types of educational experiences from most to least abstract. At the top are verbal symbols and visual symbols, followed by recordings, radio, still pictures, motion pictures, educational television, exhibits, demonstrations, dramatized experiences, contrived experiences, and direct purposeful experiences at the bottom as the most concrete experiences.

2. The Cone of Experience is a visual model,
a pictorial device that presents bands
of experience arranged according to
degree of abstraction and not degree
of difficulty.

3. Verbal
Symbols
Visual
Symbols
Recordings Radio
Still Pictures
Motion Pictures
Educational Television
Exhibits
Study Trips
Demonstrations
Dramatized Experiences
Contrived Experiences
Direct Purposeful Experiences

4. These are first hand
experiences which serve as
the foundation of our learning.
Learning by doing.

5.  In here, we make use of a representative
models or mock-ups of reality for
practical reason and so that we can
make the real-life accessible to students’
perception and understanding.

6. By dramatization, we can
participate in a reconstructed
experience, even though the
original event is far removed
from us in time.

7.  It is a visualized explanation of an
important fact, idea or process by
use of photographs, drawings,
films, displays, or guided motions.
 It shows how things are done.

8. These are excursions,
educational trips, and visits
conducted to observe an
event that is unavailable
within the classroom.

9.  These are displays to be seen by the
spectators.
 They may consist of working models
arranged meaningfully or photographs
with models, charts, and posters.

10. It can reconstruct the reality of
the past so effectively that we
are made to feel we are
there.

11. These are visual and auditory
devices which may be used
by an individual or a group.

12. These are no longer realistic
reproduction of physical things
for these are highly abstract
representations.

13. They are not like objects or
ideas for which they stand.
They usually do not contain
visual clues to their meaning.