LB#5

The cone of experience is a visual model,a pictorial device that present bands of experience arranged according to degree of abstraction and not degree of difficulty.from the bottom first is the direct purposeful experiences,contrived,dramatized,demonstration,study strips,exhibits,educational intelligence,motion pictures,recording,visual symbols, and the verbal symbol.The patten of arrangement of the bands  of experience is not difficulty but degree of abstraction.It is a visual representation,the farther you move away from the base of the cone, the more abstract the  learning resource becomes.