Reasoning about urban planning. We want students to develop hypotheses about the function of architectural structures. For instance, pedestrian crosswalks appeared rather recently in history. Students can pinpoint the time when they appeared and develop theories about why they may have been necessary. Reasoning about culture .
Images can provide important clues about community culture.
We hope to have students explore the meanings behind cultural artifacts found in images, possibly by collaborating with older adults to discover what is was like to live during the 1940's. Inquiry is an iterative process. By returning to the field to generate further observations and questions, we hope they will better understand the iterative nature of inquiry. In this way, the camera's origin and orientation are recorded when pictures are taken. This hardware configuration allows recording of position and orientation information into a JPEG image.