LESSON PLAN IN

SCIENCE GRADE 8
DATE: SEPTEMBER 04, 2017
GERARD C. BUSCADO

I OBJECTIVES
A. Content Standard
The learners demonstrate an understanding of:
Characteristics of comets, meteors and asteroids.

B. Performance Standard:
The learners shall be able to:
Discuss whether or not beliefs and practices about comets and meteors have
scientific basis.

C. Learning Competency/Objective
Compare and contrast comets, meteors and asteroids.
(S8ES-IIg-22)

II CONTENT
A. Other Members of the Solar System:
Comets, Meteors and Asteroids

III LEARNING RESOURCES

A. REFERENCES:
Curriculum Guide
Microsoft Encarta 2009. 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All
rights reserved.

IV PROCEDURES
A. PRE- ACTIVITIES

Good afternoon class. Good afternoon Sir.

How are you feeling today? Were fine Sir!

Well! I hope everybody is ready to lend your

ears in our lesson for today. (Silva leads the prayer.)
But before that Id like Ms. Silva to lead the
prayers.

Thank you Ms. Silva Youre welcome Sir.

(Teacher checks the attendance)

I guess no one is absent, so get ready to the

adventure as we roam around the world full of
interesting objects such as meteors, comets and
asteroids.
That can be commonly found within the solar
system.

a) OVERVIEW: GRADIENT
Class, have you ever wondered what else
comprises our Solar System other than (One student raised his/her
planets and Sun hand.)
 Yes Mr./Ms. ______________. Yes, sir sometimes I wondered
what are the things in the sky that
they sometimes refer to as falling
star.

Thank you Mr./Ms. ____________.

I want you to look at these pictures and tell

me anything that you observe or anything
that you are familiar with.

(Student raised their hands)

Yes Mr./Ms. ______________. Sir, that is meteors.

Meteor is the small solid body
known as a meteoroid that enters a
planet's atmosphere from outer
space and is raised to incandescence
by the friction resulting from its
rapid motion.

Very good! That is the exact answer,

next picture. (Student raised their hands)

Yes Mr./Ms. ______________. Sir, that one is Asteroid.

Asteroid is
a small rocky or metallic body that
orbits the Sun.

Thank you Mr./Ms. ____________. (Student raised their hands)

Then the last one.

Sir, that is comets.

Yes Mr./Ms. ______________.
Comet is a small icy body in space
that sheds gas and dust.

Thank you for your answer.

b) Review

Im just putting you a bit of information

(Student raised their hands)
regarding our topic for today but before
that let us recall our last topic.
Who wants to recall?

Our last topic is all about the

Yes Mr./Ms. ______________. Natural Satellites of Planets.
 Thank you for your answer
Mr./Ms. _______________.

c) MOTIVATION: CROSSWORD
PUZZLE

Before we start the discussion I want you to

group into two, the groups should comprise
the leader, cheerer and the representatives.

d.) PRE- ASSESSMENT

Cross line the words related to our topic

and discuss it in front briefly.

M H A L L E Y V V M R
F E H K L S R Z H N J
(Student do their activity)
W H T R T R I D E N S
Halley
A S T E R O I D S C F
Meteors
O H M W O V E R M L E Comets
Asteroids
Y O U O I R E N T J Q Shower
C O U H M C S H M P A
G R A S P R O T U I Y

B. DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES

Activity 1
KNOW IT ALL

Other Members Characteristics

1. Meteors

2. Asteroids

3. Comets

What are you going to do is to write down

anything regarding the things that are
written in the table that would possibly
identify them and show their differences.
Activity no. 2
WATCH AND WORK WITH ME
I want you to watch these videos that would
help you deepen your knowledge about the
topic we are discussing. Write down
anything in a whole sheet of paper
regarding the topic and discuss it why do
you say so.
After discussing your works, the same
group, make a table that would distinguish
the differences and similarities of Meteors,
Comets and Asteroids.
2. DISCUSSION
First, we are going to discuss about
Meteors.
Mr./Ms. ______________. Read and
explain the slides.
Thank you!
What a brilliant explanation.
Next slide
A meteor, or shooting star, streaks across
the night sky. Meteors begin as chunks
of rock or metal drifting through space.
As they fall through Earths atmosphere,
they heat up until they glow bright
enough to be seen from the ground.
Brilliant meteors, known as fireballs,
occur singly and generally consist of a
luminous head, followed by a comet like
train of light that may persist for several
minutes; some, called bolides, have been
seen to explode with a sound like
thunder. Fainter meteors, called shooting
or falling stars, usually occur singly and
sporadically. At intervals, however,
hundreds of such meteors occur
simultaneously and appear to emanate
from a fixed point. These swarms are
called meteor showers and are named
after the constellation in which they
seem to have their point of origin. Some
appear annually on the same days of each
year and are called periodic showers;
others occur infrequently at varying
intervals. The periods of meteor showers
generally coincide with those of certain
comets. Most meteors are dissipated in
flight and fall to the earth as dust; a
meteor that reaches the surface of the
earth or another planet is called a
meteorite.
Excellent! give him/her a round of
applause.
That was so breathtaking information.
I guess everyone has an advanced study
about our topic for today. I can say that
everyone is well prepared.
Next lets talk about comets.

Mr./Ms. ___________ would you please
read the statement on the slide.
Comets typically have highly elliptical
(oval-shaped), off-center orbits that
swing near the Sun. When a comet is
heated by the Sun, some of the ice on the
comets surface turns into gas directly
without melting. The gas and dust freed
from the ice can create a cloud (coma)
around the body (nucleus) of the comet.
More gas and dust erupt from cracks in
the comets dark crust. High-energy
charged particles emitted by the Sun,
called the solar wind, can carry the gas
and dust away from the comet as a long
tail that streams into space. Gas in the
tail becomes ionized and glows as bluish
plasma, while dust in the tail is lit by
sunlight and looks yellowish. This
distinctive visible tail is the origin of the
word comet, which comes from Greek
words meaning long-haired star.

That was very good information.

In addition to that, Close observations of
comets by spacecraft confirm that comets
have a rotating solid nucleus made of icy
material (mainly water ice) mixed with dust
and rock. This dirty snowball model of
comets was first proposed by American
astronomer Fred L. Whipple in a 1950
paper. Earlier theories suggested that
comets were made up almost entirely of gas
and lacked a large solid core, or were a pile
of rubble.

Any question regarding the Comets?

If none, lets proceed to the next topic the
Asteroids.

Sir, they are generally irregular in shape

Mr./Ms. ____________, would you like to
give us information about Asteroids.
and often have surfaces covered with
craters. Like icy comets, asteroids are
primitive objects left over from the time
when the planets formed, making them
of special interest to astronomers and

I guess that is enough information about
Asteroids, I hope everyone understand the
asteroid very well.
Now, lets talk about the comparison of
Asteroid to the other members of Solar
system.
Mr./Ms. ____________ please read the
statement on the slides.
That was very good!
Okay! that was all our topic for today.
planetary scientists.
Most asteroids are found between the
orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter in a
wide region called the asteroid belt.
Scientists think Jupiters gravity
prevented rocky objects in this part of the
solar system from forming into a large
planet. The giant planet Jupiters gravity
also helped throw objects out of the
asteroid belt. The hundreds of thousands
of asteroids now in the asteroid belt
represent only a small fraction of the
original population.
Asteroids are sometimes called
planetoids or minor planets. Most rotate
on their axis every 5 to 20 hours. Some
smaller asteroids may orbit larger
asteroids as satellites, forming binary
pairs. Asteroids differ from true planets
mainly by their much smaller sizeonly
about 200 asteroids have diameters of
more than 97 km (60 mi). Planets are
defined as bodies that have settled into a
rounded shape because of the inward pull
of their own gravitation. Asteroids are
not thought to have enough mass to settle
into rounded shapes in the same way as
planets. With their low masses, asteroids
also do not have atmospheres.
Because of their small size and primitive
composition, asteroids share many basic
properties with comets. Comets typically
have much more elliptical orbits than
asteroids and actively shed gas and dust.
Although asteroids are mainly rocky,
some may also contain water-ice material
and so are not clearly distinct from
objects that can become comets if heated
by enough sunlight. It is also possible
that some objects that are considered
asteroids are remains of dead comets that
have lost their gas and dust. In 2006
astronomers announced finding a number
of icy comet-like objects orbiting in the
main asteroid belt, suggesting that
asteroids and comets can occur together.
 C. POST-ACTIVITIES

A. ANALYSIS

Get crosswise and answer the

following question.

1. Why asteroids are differ from

other celestial bodies?
2. What comprises comets that
make it differ from the three?
3. What is the difference
between meteors and
meteorites?
4. Compare and contrast
Meteors, Comets and
Asteroids through using
tables.
5. In which part does Asteroid
belt locate in the Solar
System?
6. Differentiate Asteroid and
Comet according to their
shape.
7. What is shooting star or
falling star?

B. ABSTRACTION

Make 3 groups and discuss the following according to what you have learned.

Group 1- Meteors
Group 2- Comets
Group 3- Asteroids

C. EVALUATION
Based on the video Im going to watch you, make an essay on what is the
importance of them in the study of Astronomy. At least 3-4 paragraphs.

V. ASSIGNMENT

Make a documentation that would help everyone be aware in the study of Asteroids,
Meteors and Comets.
Same groups and 4-5 minutes.