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A MAKE AND TAKEBY
LINDA TISDALE
Clinometers
Where are we in the binder?
GLOBE Day 1Outline Letter “E”Teacher’s Guide pp. 33-35
What is a Clinometer?
A tool for measuring angles to determine heights of objects without directly measuring them.
An instrument that measures the steepness of slope.
It is used by:
Highway construction engineers to measure angles of the land,
Movie production engineers to
measure the height of the sun, And by forestry engineers to
measure the height of trees.
Source: http://www.nativeaccess.com/ancestral/totems-intro.html
“What Factors Affect Our Body of Water?”
See page 30
Materials for Each Person
Page 34 One Metal Washer15 cm of Dental FlossA LARGE Drinking StrawOne File FolderOne Plastic Sheet Protector A Thumbtack to punch a hole
Things to Remember at the Site
The person holding the clinometer should be at point “X.” Person 2 will go about 50 m out away from “Person X.” A third person is needed to read the clinometer. Slope is labeled on the Hydrology Site Map (p. 38)
You Can Measure A Tree Height
Look at the top of a tree through your straw.Move back (still looking at the tree top) until
your clinometer (the washer) is on 45 degrees.
Then measure your height (only your eyes to the ground).
And the distance from your feet to the tree base.
Lastly, add the measurements together: this is the height of the tree.
Message in a Bottle
Students will use longitude & latitude to locate positions.
You can tie it in to math class:
Graphing
Plotting Points
X-axis
Y-axis
Don’t forget aboutAlabama History:
How could you make a similar game using points in Alabama?
Play the
game
during th
e
song!