Children's Understanding of Aerial Photographs

As aerial photographs are widely used in geography education, it is important to know how children's understanding of these representations develops through the school years. We review research that has addressed children's understanding of the content of aerial photographs, and we describ...

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Published in:Children's geographies 2003-08, Vol.1 (2), p.281-293
Main Authors: PLESTER, BEVERLY, BLADES, MARK, SPENCER, CHRISTOPHER
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:As aerial photographs are widely used in geography education, it is important to know how children's understanding of these representations develops through the school years. We review research that has addressed children's understanding of the content of aerial photographs, and we describe a series of studies in which children used information from aerial photographs to carry out spatial tasks in a large space. We demonstrate that using an aerial photograph can be an aid to subsequently using a map, and we discuss the educational applications of the research with aerial photographs.
ISSN:1473-3285
1473-3277
DOI:10.1080/14733280302197