The usage of audio – visual means contribute to an active learning and to the forming of the geographical thinking; the forming of pupils’ intellectual abilities, the development of psychical/mental capacities and features, such as: motivation through stimu-lating the cognitive reasons or the forming of affective features which lead to cognitive satis-faction, the joy of solving the learning situations, the attraction for geography.Teachers’ continuous development in the problem of using the audio – visual means is necessary and should start in the initial stage of their formation in higher education, as for children – even in the primary stage cycle.