Visuals in the Classroom

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This paper explains visual materials that are commonly used in classrooms including display boards, filmstrips, models and mock-ups, overhead transparencies, photographs and drawings, slides, specimens and objects. The paper illustrates that, rather than flat surfaced maps, models, such as world globes, allow a student a better understanding of geography and offer a visual aid in placing one country or continent in relation to another. The author stresses that the computers and the Internet allows teachers and students access to written information and visual aids that otherwise would have taken hours in a library.

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"Filmstrips are strips of 35-millimeter film with a series of related still pictures or reading matter that are projected on a screen by a projector. Filmstrips allow teachers and students to make their own slides of whatever subject they are studying and to be as creative as they wish. Students may be given an assignment to photograph local trees or flowers, or perhaps their neighborhoods or families and share them as part of the lesson plan. It also provides students who are regarded as underachievers an outlet in which to express and excel."

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