Londonderry Students Measured and Calculated the Heights of Trees using Clinometers

 

   

Data

Tree image

 

Calculated height of tree  (meters)

 

 

Tulip Popular

24.36M

22.48M

23.25M

18.85M

Norway Maple

23.35M

24.75M

27.70M

37.88M

Black Locust

34.64M

17.25M

27.47M

23.43M

 

Conclusions:

1.    Our paces may not have been off.  Each student did not make sure they were making the same pace each time.

2.    The clinometers that we made may have been used incorrectly when making the reading of angle off the protractors.