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My second son is a visual learner. My eldest is mostly auditory! This means that my eldest LOVES how we study history: SoTW, but my visual boy isn't getting any of it!
Can you recommend any classical type history materials that he would be able to use on his own?
Mind you after reading Leonie's post about the bare minimum, perhaps I don;t need to bother with any history!
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What age boy are you working with? I assume you are asking for ideas for the 8 year old. Well here is what I'd do - first at 8 it is not the biggest stress in the world, so if you don't or cannot get to it, it really can slide. It also depends on whether or not your child is reading. If not, don't even sweat it.
I have 2 visual learners in my house and here - one who is 9ish. With him, we focus mostly on geography - atlases with beautiful pictures and puzzle maps that he traces and then makes his own by showing the animals or features of that region. We don't do it every single day. Between last year and this we have done a map of Africa (all those animals), Asia, Australia and will be adding saints and animals and geographic regions and features to the Asia and Australia maps. Africa is done. He really got into writing the country names in but these were huge maps with lots of space. I'm tempted to laminate and display them. They are not an artists rendition but a visual reminder hanging on the wall would reinforce his work.
The other thing we do is to find books that are easy for the child to read - especially good picture books. We are also making a wall timeline that is made with pictures primarily. I generally just have things that dovetail in region and time period with others so everyone is studying the same stuff even if not together. So if you are using SoTW with your older, then just look up at a visual timeline (we made the one RChistory sells) and pick a good picture book or two for each the time period. I don't require any output from this child. He reads and looks - other than the maps.
My older child who is visual/kinesthetic mostly reads and makes timelines. He reads like the dickons and is able to argue with his older sister so I know he is retaining it even if I don't have a lot of projects or papers or tests.
The main thing at 8 is not to stress over it.
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Tricia - Some timeline work would help him *see* the work more. I have really been enjoying the timeline figures from Homeschool in the Woods. My visual learner really appreciates them! You don't have to purchase the timeline figures though - you can just have him sketch a figure or an event on the timeline rather than writing in a date and a name.
I really like the use of maps, outlining continent/country on a piece of paper and filling in with anything you're studying from history - battles, exploration, saints, inventions - the possibilities here are endless.
Very beautiful and intriguing books help as well...
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Tricia,
Some things you might be able to do is to use graphic organizers to bring the visual in with what you're already using. And also lapbooking/notebooking are excellent for visual learning as well. Using lots of color in visual learning is a good thing as well. Often videos, and highly colorful and graphic books are great for teaching visual learners, such as the DK or Usborne books. Here are a few websites that may be helpful:
Eduplace Graphic Organizer site
Teacher Vision graphic organizer site
Edhelpher graphic organizer site
another good graphic organizer site
more graphic organizing for you!
examples of how using graphic organizers can work(I can't say the content is great, but it'll give you a good idea on how using them can work)
my favorite graphic organizer site
Great article on teaching visual learners!
A neat way to teach visual learners!
Interesting ways to teach visually
Excellent site on teaching visual learners!
I hope these help you. 
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Tracy Q and Jennifer;
Thanks for all these links. I think some of the graphic organizers might help us over a writing glitch. I at least feel better knowing we have one more tool to try. I'm in the process of making the Rchistory wall timeline - wouldn't you know, I made it bigger, but wanted to add more secular pictures and Jenn, this looks like a perfect addition to the timeline along with some ideas for my visual kiddos from this very non arts and craftsy person.
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Janet,
I'm glad the links could help. I have an extremely right brained learner, and that translates to very visual, so I'm just learning about all of this myself, and it's very interesting, but extremely challenging! I'm extremely visual, so you'd think it wouldn't be, but it is nonetheless. 
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Tracy:
Challenging is the word! I just discoverd that I am the only auditory person in the family (well, maybe our college musician is more auditory and our youngest appears he might have that strength). The rest of my family is extremely visual Or almost totally kinesthetic! No wonder I had so much trouble getting discussions going - and group learning just doesn't work - so much in a group has to be auditory unless mom is a good craft or techno whiz. Projects will draw my visual and my kinesthtetics together but someone else has to lead them. I have yet to get a single science experiment to work - we rely on science fan for that. Everyone else in my family (except me) are big picture (more spatial type learners). I am the only one who must see the details before I can get the big picture. I'm very, very sequential (I had no problem with computer programming once someone gave me step by step how to use the particular machine because I think that sequentially and never,ever leave out a step).
I'm relieved to find out I'm not just a total dunce at teaching - but it appears I'm going to have to come up with some interesting tools that are going to be difficult for me to follow in order to help dc. I also have a better clue to communication far outside of school/academics. I even find it fascinating how learning types are reflected in Mass preference as well. My visuals far prefer the Extraordinary form of Mass. They are happy with a very visually reverent Mass of any sort but they are helped by the lack of speaking and the ability to just watch. It helps them meditate and focus on the Mass. They are very distracted by the typical extra business you see in a typical parish setting (choir behind the altar, all the extraordinary ministers crowding around the altar, etc.) Some of this they handle by downturned eyes but then they don't get visual clues input. They probably have a little easier time with the Ordinary form than my kinesthetics or auditory folks have with the Extraordinary form. My kinesthetics find the extraordinary Mass very difficult and have told me that they spend the entire Mass trying to redirect their wandering minds - not because they've willfully been distracted but just because with so little change of posture, they just cannot seem to stay focused no matter how hard they try. (I sugggested that maybe that is why you see so many running rosary beads through their hands during Mass.) I have just enough visual that I can go either way, but it has taken me much longer to adjust than my visuals. (We are going to the extraordinary once per month at the moment).
I'm looking forward to seeing more ideas here on what helps to offer the visual and visual spatial learners - not just in school settings but in real life settings. Also, on another thread, I'll be looking for ideas for the purely kinesthetics - especially with an uncoordinated, activity avoiding mom.
Janet
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Thanks for all of the links, Tracy Q.
I have one very visual learner- at about 4 or 5 he told me he saves everything in his mind with icons, like a computer. And, he explained how he can see several different thoughts at the same time.
He took the mystery out of figuring out his learning style. He loves to read. He gets almost all of his information from the many, many books he reads. He is very sensitive to film (especially with a strong auditory component) and therefore we have not done much with learning videos/TV. I do see that helping in the future.
I have had to be very careful with the visual things he is exposed to (like avoiding scary commercials) because of the way they "stick" with him.
Interesting comments on the Mass. I had not thought about it. Now that I am, I see that my visual son loves MagnifiKid because he can follow along. He hardly hears a word of the sermon, though. 
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