Lesson 5: The Cone of Experience

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. Thus Cone of Experience was made by Edgar Dale. Here are the learning resources presented in the Cone of Experience: direct purposeful experiences; contrived experiences; dramatized experiences; demonstrations; study trips; exhibits; educational television; motion pictures; recordings, radio and still pictures; visual symbols and verbal symbols.