ABSTRACT
Living in a visual world, children make sense of their world through visual images and cues. We live in a visual world. Images are a powerful tool of communication. Visual images are used to communicate ideas, to sell products, to question, to educate. They can be used for learning, recording and communicating ideas. As so much information is communicated visually both within and beyond geography, it is important for children to learn how to be visually literate. Visual literacy is the ability to decode and interpret visual images. Visually literate people can use pictures and images in creative ways. Mackintosh argues ‘the skill of looking at, understanding and interpreting pictures has to be taught through planned directed study’. The chapter outlines the possibilities for creating geographical resources through taking good photographs and underline the importance of working with maps.
