Teaching – Page 5 of 11 – Writing in the Stream

Classroom Management: Restorative Questions

The questions below come from this video from the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence:

https://gandhiinstitute.org/

Question 1: What happened?

Question 2: What were you thinking at the time?

Question 3: What have you thought about since?

Question 4: Who has been affected? How?

Question 5: What do you need to do to make things right?

Measuring the Height of Trees with a Clinometer/Laser Rangefinder: Sine works better than Tangent

When I first got interested in measuring the heights of trees, after reading a wonderful book called The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston, I thought that finding the tangent was the best way to calculate the height of a tree. After all, I didn’t have a way to measure the hypotenuse — the distance from me to the top of the crown. However, a laser rangefinder let’s you calculate that distance, which in turn makes it much easier to get an accurate reading for the height of a tree. Thanks to the Eastern Native Tree Society (ENTS) for posting a helpful article about this.