1. 8

2. 7

3. 6

4. 5

5. 4

6. 3

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10. “The Cone is a visual
analogy, and like all
analogies, it does not bear
an exact and detailed
relationship to complex
elements it represents.”
- Edgar Dale -

11. Given 11 randomized bands
of the Cone of Experience,
arrange the jumbled bands
in order inside a cone
according to the degree of
abstraction.

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

13. Verbal
Symbols
Visual
Symbols
Recordings, Radio,
Still Pictures
Motion Pictures
Educational Television
Exhibits
Study Trips
Demonstrations
Dramatized Experiences
Contrived Experiences
Direct Purposeful Experiences
EDGAR DALE’S: THE CONE OF EXPERIENCE

14. Direct Purposeful Experiences
 First hand experience
that serve as the
foundation of learning.
 Learning by doing.

15. Contrived Experiences
 We make use of a
representative models or
mock ups of reality for
practical reasons.

16. Dramatized Experiences
 By dramatization, we can
participate in a
reconstructed experience
even though the original
event is far removed from
us in time.

17. Demonstrations
 A visualized explanation
of an important fact,
idea, or process by the
use of photographs,
drawings, films, displays,
or guided motion.

18. Study Trips
 Excursions or visits
conducted to observe an
event that is unavailable
inside the classroom.

19. Exhibits
 Displays to be seen by
spectators.

20. Television & Motion Pictures
 Reconstruct reality of the
past so effectively.

21. Recordings, Radio, Still Pictures
 These are visual and
auditory devices may be
used by individual or
group.

22. Visual Symbols
 No longer realistic
reproduction of physical
things for these are
highly abstract
representation.
 Charts, graphs, maps,
diagram

23. Verbal Symbols
 These are not like object
or ideas for which they
stand. They usually do
not contain a visual clues
to their meaning.

24. What are the
implications of the
cone of experience in
the teaching learning
process?

25.  Do not use only one
medium of
communication.
 Do not proceed with the
abstract without
adequate foundation of
the concrete.

26.  Don’t get stuck with the
concrete. Let us strive to
bring our students to the
symbolic abstract level
to develop their higher
thinking skills.

27. Small Group Work

28.  If you teach a lesson on
the meaning of ½, 1/3,
and ¼ how will you
proceed if you follow the
pattern in Dale’s Cone of
Experience beginning with
the concrete moving
toward the abstract.

29. Making Connection

30.  How does the dictum in
philosophy “there is
nothing in mind that was
not first in the senses”
relate what you learned
from the cone of
experience?

31.  Alfred North Whitehead said:
“In the Garden of Eden, Adam
saw the animals before he
named them. In the
traditional system, children
name the animals before they
see them.” How would you
relate this remark to the Cone
of Experience?