Why Are Visuals Important?

Once we understand why visuals are important, we should be excited

to take steps to use these tools when we are teaching.

There are two main reasons why it is important to actually show the

children what we are teaching.

1. Visuals clarify the material being taught.

2. Visuals make learning more permanent.

Visuals Clarify the Material Being Taught

In normal day-to-day living we learn:

3% through taste

3% through smell

6% through touch

13% through hearing

75% through seeing

Though we use all our senses to learn, it appears that seeing is the

sense where most of our learning comes from. So this tells us that

the most effective way to clarify and bring understanding to what is

being taught is to actually show the children.

Here is an example of how important it is to have a clarification of

lessons being taught. If a child hears a Bible study regarding the Ark

of the Covenant and with not much Bible knowledge, they may

assume the Ark is actually Noah’s Ark. The teacher may talk about

how the people carried this Ark while traveling in the wilderness. A

child could, in their mind, assume the teacher is talking about the

people carrying Noah’s big boat ark. A picture of the Ark of the

Covenant would clearly show that it is not Noah’s ark.

Here is a demonstration of how seeing something gives much more

clarity than just hearing about it.