No matter what the subject, visuals should always be a must in the classroom. When teaching a class full of kids you are bound to have students with a variety of learning styles. By providing visuals to go along with any type of lecture you are now helping out those students who are visual learners. Also, having a lesson done with multiple modalities will help all students to learn better and to retain, regardless of their learning styles. Visuals can also be a way to help draw kids into the lesson. Let's take math for instance...when teaching pythagorean theorem I might find as many pictures of triangles being used in the real world. Students could then go through and determine if those triangles are right triangles. By seeing the concept being used in the real world, students will be more connected to it.
In a blog by Susie Boss, http://www.edutopia.org/visuals-math-curriculum, she discusses the importance of visuals in the classroom. She also links to a blog by Dan Meyer, http://blog.mrmeyer.com/, who has created an entire blog dedicated to using visuals in the classroom. Dan's blog in more about giving examples of visuals he has used in his math classroom. With most of his posts, there are a great deal of comments and converstations about the different examples posted.
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