KEY TIPS ON HOW TO AND PASS GEOGRAPHY ITEM 2 PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION
  • Learners should always read thoroughly very well all topics putting much emphasis and focus on sustainable utilization of resources like,
  • Sustainable utilization of fisheries resources
  • Wild life conservation and tourism
  • Mineral resources and mining
  • Forest, forest resources and forestry
  • Irrigation farming
  • Development of manufacturing industries
  • Environmental conservation measures.
  • Learners should practice on regular basis proper ways of Drawing neat photographic sketches.
  • Ensure the use of very Sharp pencils during drawing of photographic sketches.
  • Much Emphasis should be put on marginal information (MI) that is the Tittle, boundary or frame, key or labelling then proper allocation of features on the sketch you have Drawn as they are allocated in photograph .
  • A correct title should have "what are you drawing?, from where? What does it show?"
  • Example of a correct title
  • What are you drawing (A Landscape sketch of the area), from where (shown on the photograph) what does it showing? (Showing the major physical features and Land use activities).
  • Learners should learn to draw and label from inside their photographic sketches to avoid wasting time.
  • Learners should learn to put more features in their sketches as much as possible to obtain more scores to their maximum.
  • During drawing of sketches learners should put emphasis on.
  • showing relief of the area like upland, steep slope, gentle slope, valley and lowland.
  • Showing vegetation types like forests, trees, short grass and shrubs.
  • Showing Drainage features like lakes and rivers or water body.
  • Showing land use activities like road transport, settlement, area under crop cultivation, forestry and others.
  • Learners should learn to explain the factors favouring the development of the above sectors with evidences from the photographs satisfactorily without leaving mental arguments to the scorers.
  • Learners should be in position to describe the problems faced and resulting from over utilising of the above resources with evidences from the photograph
  • Learners should put much emphasis on solutions to sustainably utilize the above resources in their area such that the future generations can also utilise and benefit from the existing resources in their area.
  • Learners should avoid using phrases like "don't," individuals "should stop ","Avoid" when giving out solutions to sustainably utilize the natural resources in their area.
  • Learners should properly learn to integrate photographic parts like foreground, middle ground and background in their work during answering of photographs.
  • Learners should learn to describe features in each part of the photograph like left foreground, middle foreground, right foreground, left middle ground, middle ground, right middle ground, left background, middle background and right background.
  • Learners should learn to describe the scenes in the photograph through using all parts of the photograph.

AUTHORED BY Kajjula Steven Nkonge

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