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5 Useful Types of Visual Aids

Are you still unsure what some good visual aids are? In the How do visual aids help students with learning disabilities? post, we covered six different types of aids that specifically can be beneficial to teaching kids with learning disabilities. Those things included graphs and charts, peer models, photographs, graphics, videos, and objects. These are just as great for kids that don't have learning disabilities. In this post, we will cover five additional visual aids that could help in a classroom setting. These will include posters, handouts, props, presentations, and hands-on experience. Posters Posters are a great way to add colour and variety to a classroom while being educational. Common uses of posters may include calendars, task charts, infographics, maps, and diagrams. Calendars are common in elementary school classrooms. These are great when teaching kids about days, weeks, months, and years. Along with calendars, weather charts are commonly placed beside to help kids id...
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How to Create Effective Visual Resources - Part 2: Principles of Design

Creating effective visual aids can seem hard if you don't know where to start. This two-part post teaches you about the elements and principles of design, what they are and how you could use them to create your visual aids. Now that you know about the elements of design , let's go over the principles of design. Principles of design are used with elements of design to create simple to elaborate work. There is some disagreement among designers of which are the core principles of design. This post will cover the many different ones regardless of how popular they are. The principles that will be covered are contrast, balance, movement and hierarchy, emphasis, pattern and repetition, variety, unity, proximity, and alignment. Principles of Design Contrast Contrast occurs when there is a variation or contrast that makes the visual interesting. Contrast can be created through size (big vs small), colour (warm vs cool), texture (slimy vs soft), value (light vs dark), length (short vs lo...
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How To Pick The Right Colour Schemes For Your Visual Aid

Colour is a powerful tool in visual aids. It is one of the elements of designs that I talked about in my post How to Create Effective Visual Resources - Part 1: Elements of Design . In the post, I mentioned different colour schemes that can be used, however did not describe them in detail but have saved that for this post.  To understand the colour schemes, we first need to cover the primary, secondary, and tertiary colours. This is all part of what we call colour theory. Primary Colours The primary colours are yellow, red, and blue. These hues can not be attained by mixing other colours. However, they can be used to create secondary and tertiary colours.  Secondary Colours The secondary colours are colours that are created by mixing two primary colours together. Since there are only three primary colours, there can only be three mixed combinations that create three new colours. These colours are orange (created from mixing red and yellow together), green (created from mixing ...
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