Abstract
The use of remote sensing as a didactic resource can bring great co ntributions to society. Despite the various utilities that satellite images can brin g to the teaching practice, its usage is quite small. The teacher should organize the activities in classroom giving meaning to what is being studied, present to the student a Geography closer to his reality, to his quotidian. In this context, this work aims to develop and evaluate a didactic sequence to the study of the place category, with th e satellite images help, confection of drawings and mental maps, applied to the 5th grade elementary school students of Paulo Devanier Lauda School in Tancredo Neves district, Santa Maria – RS. In form of drawings, the students represented their living places accord ing to their quotidian experiences. With the Ikonos satellite images of Tancredo Neves habitation center, the students interpreted geographic elements and transcript to parchment paper. The mental map analysis made before and after the use of satellite image, it was found various improvements on the spatial knowledge in the space lived by the students. The didactic sequence enabled motivation to the students for the realization of the place study . With the images it was possibly to verify the locations known by the students and broaden their view on their living space
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