L.B.# 8

Contrived experiences are substitutes of real things when it is not feasible to bring the real thing to the class.They include models,mock ups,specimens,objects,simulations and games.The most important things to remember when we make use of models and mock ups are to make them as close as we could to the real things they represent.If for one reason or another they could not replicate the real things in size and color and we should at least cautions the user or the reader by giving the scale.

L.B.# 7

Direct purposeful experiences refers to our concrete and first hand experiences that make up the foundation of our learning.These are the rich experiences that our senses bring from which we construct the ideas,the concepts,the generalizations that give meaning and order to our lives.Direct experiences lead us to concept formation and abstraction.We should not end our lessons knowing only the concrete.We go beyond the concrete by reaching the level of abstract concepts.