Day 39

Building and using a transit: Today we built a clinometer in class and used it to measure the angle of elevation so that we could calculate the height of some objects around the school. We looked a the flagpole, lamp, exterior wall of school, tree, hallway wall, student square wall, football uprights.

Assignment: Students need to draw a labelled diagram and calculate the height of the object using trigonometry. Don't forget a concluding statement.