Draw evenly-spaced horizontal lines across your mountain. Following those lines, slice the potatoes into several pieces. Find the bottom, or largest piece, and with a marking pen trace around the outside of this piece on a sheet of paper. Place the next smallest slice inside the tracing you have just made, and continue this until an outline of the smallest slice has been traced. Orienteering and Map Games for Teachers Table top maps are a good way to introduce the idea of aerial perspective.
Children often see the world from their level, up or from the ground upwards.
Due to this, their maps often have a pictorial or landscape view. The following activity can help younger children begin to understand the aerial perspective that most maps offer. Start by mapping an environment your students are familiar with, such as the classroom. Use a table and large enough piece of paper so that all children can gather around and see. A simple pictorial map showing two or three walls of the classroom will usually result.