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I. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson 80% of the students should be able to:
Content Standard: Learners demonstrate an understanding the relationship between the
invisible constellation in the sky and the Earth's position along its orbit.
Performance Standard: Discuss whether or not popular beliefs and practices with regard to
constellation and astrology have scientific basis.
Learning Competency: Infer the characteristics of stars based on the characteristics of the
sun.
III. PROCEDURE
A. PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES
Teacher's Activity Student's Activity
1. Opening Prayer
2. Greetings
3. Energizer
4. Checking of Attendance
(Class, who is absent from the boys? How about
from the girls?)
5. Checking of Assignment Our assignment was to master the performance
(What was your assignment all about?) task assigned to each group
(presentation of assigned task per group)
B. DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES
Teacher's Activity Student's Activity
1. Review Ma'am we call it telescope
Class what device is use to magnify and view
distance objects?
Correct
Can you give me examples of telescope? The different types of telescope are:
Refracting telescope, reflecting telescope,
spectroscope, and radio telescope
That's right
2. Motivation
Class, do you want to play a game Yes Ma'am
Good, now I will group you into four. Each group Group 1: Betelgeuse- Group 2: Polaris-
will select a leader and a secretary. Group 3: Sirius- Group 4: Capella
(grouping the class)
Wow, very good. Give our winning group a (Selected students assemble the puzzle)
firecracker clap.
Clap, clap, clap
Class, what figure is form in the puzzle?
That's right. Aside from that? A star is a ball of fire that can be seen during at
Exactly. night.
Stars are huge ball of gas made of hydrogen and
Can we consider our sun as a star? helium.
Any other answer? The sun is the nearest star in our planet.
That's correct. The sun gives off light and energy to our planet.
3. Presentation
4. Discussion
Precisely.
Very good. Stars have different sizes. What No Ma'am, stars have different size. There are big
happened if the star is bigger? Does it have shorter stars, medium stars and dwarf stars.
or longer life? I think Ma'am it has shorter life. Big stars consume
their energy more because of their size.
Precisely. There are different sizes in stars. The size
affects the brightness of the star. If the star is too
big, it will consume lots of energy. The bigger the
star is, the shorter the life span is.
That's it. Another question, Why do you think we Yes, because our sun is a star, so the stars that is
cannot see the stars during day time? Do stars only far away from us can be called distant suns.
show at night? The reason is that the light of the sun outshines
the brightness or the light of the stars. That is why
during daytime, we cannot see stars when the sun
Very good. Why do you think the stars twinkle? is still up there in the sky.
Ma'am, this is because of our atmosphere.
What about our atmosphere? What's the relation
of the atmosphere in the twinkling of the stars? Because the atmosphere is moving so the light
refracts from it causing the stars to twinkle.
Exactly. Stars twinkle when we see them from the
Earth's surface because we are viewing them
through thick layers of turbulent (moving) air in
the Earth's atmosphere, but the light of the stars
reach our planet in straight pattern. The twinkling
of stars is called Stellar Scintillation.
5. Generalization
IV. EVALUATION
_______10. When the star dies because it has no more fuels to burn, it becomes?
V. ASSIGNMENT
Observed the sky during night time. Answer the following on your notebook.