School-history pageflippers Archives

Airphoto historical series for school surroundings

In this section we present short pdfs for the surroundings of local schools. Each page features a precisely scaled and aligned aerial photograph, ordered on adjacent pages for precise point-to-point comparison of changes with human construction, forest clearing, and/or successional development. Many of these air photos are the same as those included as 3D stereograms in the earlier workshop materials. The difference in these “pageflippers” is that they make decade-to-decade comparisons easier than in stereopairs, where alignment is dependent on the plane’s flight direction.

These historical series are also well suited to projection as slideshows. I’m also loading them as powerpoints, minus the annotation included with the pdfs. This gives teachers more flexibility, to customize sequences, and to use the photo-comparisons as puzzlers—always more interesting than predrawn conclusions.

PS 2025: Adding materials for Sayéik, spirit helper (D-word Is) I just noticed that only 2 of the flipper-series documents for our schools had been loaded to this section. SORRY educators! Apparently the reason is that while the pdfs were assembled in draft form, I hadn’t added annotations; merely little xxxxx placeholders. But that shouldn’t slow down a good teacher or naturalist. so here they are, unscripted. If those xxxxx’s inspire you, write some captions yourself, and send em to me for Flippers-version-2!

Moving roughly from NW to SE, our school-history pageflippers are:

● Auke Bay ● UAS campus

● Mword River School

● Sít’ Eetí Shaanáx (Glacier Valley)

● Riverbend ● Thunder Mtn High

● Dzantik’i Héeni Middle School

● Harborview ● Yada.at Kalé (JDH) ● Yaakoosgé Daakahídi ● Montessori ● Charter

● Sayéik (Gastineau)