A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN GRADE 9 MATHEMATICS – QUARTER 4

I. OBJECTIVE
At the end of the lesson, the Grade Nine students will be able to:
• describe angles of depression and angles of elevation
• appreciate the relevance of angles of depression and angles of elevation in real life
situations.
• solve practical problems involving angle of elevation and angle of depression with
75% proficiency level.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

A. ANGLE OF ELEVATION AND ANGLE OF DEPRESSION
B. References
Algebra Two with Trigonometry by Foster, Ruth, and Winters
Learners’ Material for Mathematics 9 page 457-466
C. Materials
Visual aid, white board, white board marker and calculator
D. Values Integration
Active participation, cooperation, collaboration and thinking

III. PROCEDURE
A. Preliminary Activities/Preparation
1. Prayer
2. Checking of the attendance
3. Checking of the assignment
4. Review of the past lesson
5. Drill/Exercise
B. Motivation
Group Activity on Angles of Elevation and Depression
4 Pics 3 Words
Instruction: Guess the word using the 4 pictures shown.
1. 2.

Angle of Elevation Angle of Depression

Processing Questions
1. How did you find the activity?
2. What can you say about the pictures shown?
3. What mathematical concepts have you learned from the activity?
C. Discussion Proper
TEACHER ACTIVITY STUDENT ACTIVITY
Our topic for today is about angle of elevation
and angle of depression.

Do you have any idea class of what do we mean The answer of the students may
by elevation? vary.

How about depression? The answer of the students may

vary.

Angle of elevation is the angle form the

horizontal to the line of sight of the observer to
the object above.
Line of sight is an imaginary line that connects
the eye of an observer to the object being
observed.

Angle of depression is the angle from the

horizontal to the line of sight of the observer to
the object below.

To understand better, let us consider an

example.

Problem No.1
An observer looks up at an angle of 40° looking The student will follow.
at the top of a tower. The tower is 300ft away
measured along the ground. What is the height
of the tower?

Now what you are going to do is to draw first a

right triangle then base on the problem, label the
right triangle similar to the previous problem
you have encountered before.

Suppose that this is the Tower and this is the

observer. In the Problem the observer looks up
the angle of 40° looking at the top of a Tower.

Is the angle of 40°, an angle of elevation or an Angle of elevation Ma’am!

angle of depression?

Very good! So where do we put the 40° angle? Between the observer’s line of sight
Is it between the observer’s line of sight and the and the line of sight above observer
Ma’am!
top of a tower, or between the observer’s line
sight and line of sight above observer?

Very Good! So, we are asked to find the height

of the tower, right? So let h be the height of the
tower.

What trigonometric functions or ratio can be Tangent Function

used to solve for the height of the tower?

Okay let’s try to solve the height of the tower

using tangent function.

𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒
𝑇𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡 =
𝑎𝑑𝑗𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡
ℎ
𝑇𝑎𝑛 40˚ =
300𝑓𝑡
(𝑇𝑎𝑛 40˚)(300) = ℎ
251.73 𝑓𝑡 = ℎ

The height of the tower is 251.73𝑓𝑡

Are there any questions?

None Ma’am!
Problem no.2

An airplane is flying at a height of 4 km

above the ground. The distance along the
ground from the airplane to the airport is 6
km. What is the angle of depression from
the airplane to the airport?
Our notation for degrees is θ

If this is our illustration, the height of the

airplane to the ground is 4 km and the
distance along the ground is 6 km then
where should we put the angle of depression
or the θ?

Suppose the observer is in the inside on the

airplane. Then our line of sight must be the
eye level of the observer, right? Yes Ma’am!

So where should we put the angle of

depression or the θ?

Between the observer line of sight and Between the observer line sight
airport, between the horizontal ground and and line of sight below observer
airplane or between the observer line sight
and line of sight below observer?
 Very Good!

So, by definition of angle of depression it is

between the observer line sight and line of
sight below observer.

Okay to solve θ, what trigonometric ratios Tangent Ma’am!

can be used to solve the angle of
depression?

Okay! Tangent! So Tangent is opposite over Yes Ma’am!

adjacent.

So, who wants to volunteer to solve for θ The student will raise his/her
using tangent function? Anyone? Yes! hand.

4
𝑇𝑎𝑛 𝜃 =
6
tan θ= 0.67
tan θ= 𝑡𝑎𝑛(0.67)−1
θ=33.82°

Do you have the same answer class? Yes Ma’am!

Who has another answer? None Ma’am!

Are there any questions? None Ma’am!

D. Application
Right now, let’s have an activity. Please count off from1-4 starting from you. Group 1
please stand up know your group mates and occupy in that area, similar with 2 on that
area, 3 on that area and 4 on that area.
1
Answer the following questions in a 2 sheet of paper.

1. In the diagram below, AB and CD are two vertical poles on horizontal ground. Draw
in the angle of elevation of D from B and the angle of depression of C from B.
 2. An observer looks up at an angle of 40˚ looking at the top of a tower. The tower is
200 ft. away from the observer. What is the height of the tower?

E. Generalization
What is an angle of elevation?
What is an angle of depression?
What is the difference between angle of elevation and angle of depression?

IV. EVALUATION
Choose the right answer.
1. ___________ is an angle from the horizontal to the line of sight of the observer to the
object below.
A. Angle of Bowling C. Angle of Depression
B. Angle of Candid D. Angle of Elevation

2. What do you call an angle from the horizontal to the line of sight of the observer to the
object above?
A. Angle of Bowling C. Angle of Depression
B. Angle of Bowling D. Angle of Elevation

3. What do you call an imaginary line that connects the eye of an observer to the object
being observed?
A. Greenwich Line C. Mediterranean Line
B. Line of Sight D. Polar Line

4. This angle is formed when you’re looking for a lost coin in the end.
A. Angle of Bowling C. Angle of Depression
B. Angle of Candid D. Angle of Elevation

5. This angle is formed when you’re looking at the top of the tree a hundred feet away from
you.
A. Angle of Bowling C. Angle of Depression
B. Angle of Candid D. Angle of Elevation

V. ASSIGNMENT
Direction: On your assignment notebook, Illustrate and identify what type of angle is
illustrated the given word problem and then solve them using the mathematical
concepts SOH-CAH-TOA.
1. Mark is flying a kite and realizes that 300 feet of string are out. The angle of
the string with the ground is 42.50. How high is Mark’s kite above the ground?

2. A man who is 2 m tall stands on horizontal ground 30 m from the tree. The angle of
elevation of the top of the tree from his eyes is 28°. Estimate the height of the tree.

3. A tower is 15.24 m high. At a certain distance away from the tower, an observer
determines that the angle to the top of it is 410. How far is the observer from the base
of the tower?

4. A ladder leans against a brick wall. The foot of the ladder is 6 feet from the wall.
The ladder reaches a height of 15 feet on the wall. Find the angle the ladder makes with
the wall.
 5. Find the distance of a boat from a lighthouse if the lighthouse is 100 meters tall, and
the angle of depression is 6°.

Answer key

1. Angle of Elevation, 202.68 feet

2. Angle of Elevation, 17.95 m

3. Angle of Elevation, 17.53 m

4. Angle of Depression, 21.8°

5. Angle of Depression, 951.44 m

Prepared by: Janerose C. Cafino