The use of photographs in geography lessons

Photos are often use in teaching activities for observing different environmental components, for illustrating or explaining natural phenomena or process. Using these during lessons helps pupils to develop the competence to analyse and interpret an image. There can be used just a few photos in different moments of the lesson or they can be organised in slideshows together with some short explanatory texts. The efficiency of the learning situation organised on the bases of images depends on some of the photos’ characteristics: they must be realized in a big format, to be clear and colored, to be projected on a screen, so that they are visible form any angle of the classroom, to represent a single essential aspect of the reality and not to have other insignificant details and to contain an element for dimension perception (a human or an instrument) in order to correctly perceive the size of the subject