A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN SCIENCE VI

I. Objectives

A. Content Standard: The learners demonstrate an understanding of

characteristics of comets, meteors, and asteroids.

B. Performance Standard: Discuss whether or not beliefs and practices about

asteroids, and meteors have scientific basis.

C. Learning Competency: Compare and contrast comets, meteors, and asteroids;

D. Learning Objectives:

At the end of the lesson the students are expected to:

 Differentiate meteor, meteoroids and meteorites.
 Explain the reason why meteors fall.
 Construct a diagram about meteors, meteorites and meteoroids.

II. Subject Matter

Lesson: Meteors
Topic: Different meteor and meteoroids
Materials: Cartolina, pens, paper, video, projector, laptop
References: Integrated Science Textbook. NISMED. 2012. pp. 339-340.,
Science 6 Learner’s Module. Campo, Pia C., et al. 2013. pp.156-164.
Strategy: Deductive Approach

III. Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

A. PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES

May I request everyone to stand for a prayer bey Good morning Ma’am!
audio-visual presentation.

Good morning class!

How are you this morning? We are good Ma’am!

Good to hear that. Before you sit down, please pick

up some paper under your chairs and desk, arrange
your chairs and sit down properly.
Everybody is present today Ma’am.
Is there any absent from the class today?
 B. RECALL

Who can still remember our previous topic? Ma’am, our previous topic is about
Comets and Asteroids.

Correct and base on the previous discussion what Comet is essentially a ball of ice, rock
are those? and dust that orbits the sun raging in size
from 1 km- 20 km while asteroids mostly
are odd shaped chunks of rocks sizes
vary from 10 meters to 1000 kms wide.

Very well said! And where does Comets and Comets reside on the very outskirts of
Asteroids reside. the solar system: Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud while Asteroids ca be found on the
Asteroid Belt between Jupiter and Mars.

Very good! Last question, can you name one
example of Comet and Asteroid?
I am very glad that you have learned something on
our previous discussion. discussion.
One example of Comet is Halley’s Comet
barely 15 kilometers long, 8 kilometers
wide and for Asteroid is Ceres, the
largest ever found Asteroid at 960 km
wide which is about as wide as Texas.

Now are you ready for the next lesson? Yes Ma’am!

C. MOTIVATION

Class do you want to hear a story? Yes Ma’am!

The title of the story is “Meteor! Meteor!
Why You Fall”.
Have you heard about that story? No Ma’am!

Once upon a time, there exist a Solar City, a city

of lights; where the moons, the stars and all the
planets reside. They are living in harmony along with
the Sun goddess who gives them warmth and
energy.

Somewhere in between Mars and Jupiter, there

existed a place called Asteroid Belt in where reside
1.9 million of asteroids. Among the many, is a boy
named Asta who is very curious of the things around
him. He likes to go to places and explore but he had
never pass then Asteroid Zone and that’s the Golden
rule by the Sun Goddess and he never understood
why. He would always stare at the beautiful blue
planet called Earth behind Mars.

One day, he decided to break the law. He thought

nothing could go wrong, he can still come back and
he would be the first one to do that. He began his
trip. On the way he notices so many beautiful things.
He came close to the stars and the planets. He
thought nothing could go wrong. But when he neared He will be torn to pieces Ma’am.
the Earth he began to change. He heated and sped
up. He was hot all over his body.

What do you think will happen to Asta next?

Yes, when he entered the Earth’s atmosphere, he
was torn to so many pieces.
Did you like the story?
Yes Ma’am!
Base on the story, our lesson for today is
about meteors because they fall from the
sky.

Base on the story what do you think is our lesson for

today?

Asteroid Ma’am.
Yes, and did you know that Asteroids are the mother
of meteors. Because before they fell on the Earth’s
surface they were once Asteroid or a Comet.

That is why in the story Asta is what?

Correct, in fact most of meteors are fragments of

asteroids that broke apart long ago in the Solar
System.
At the end of the lesson, I can:

D. LESSON PROPER • Differentiate meteor, meteoroids

and meteorites.
Today we will find out more about meteors and how • Explain the reason why meteors
it differs from Meteoroid and Meteorite. fall.
• Construct diagram about meteor,
Please read our objectives for today. meteoroid and meteorites.
Activity

Now, the class will be divided into 2 groups. This row

will be the group this row will be the group 2.

The title of this activity is “Mirror Meteor in the Wall”

But before doing the activity you need to first watch a
three-minute video about meteor, meteoroid and
meteorite.

https://youtu.be/O4QrnC9vLs8

Direction:
 Each group will be handed a cartolina with the
word METEORS side by side written
downwards.
 The students will need to mirror the letters
and think of a word which starts and ends with
the same letters. Yes Ma’am!
 Each letter is equivalent to 1 point.
 The group who will have most letters will win
the game.

Are we clear class?

Activity Preview:

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Let’s clap our hands for the winner of this It was fun Ma’am!
activity
Yes Ma’am!
E. GENERALIZATION
Meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic
How did you find the activity class? body in outer space.

Have you familiarized the terms meteor,

meteor, meteorite?

What is a meteoroid? When the burning meteoroid passes

through the Earth’s atmosphere.

In the thermosphere Ma’am!

Very good and when can we call it a meteor?
Where in the region of the atmosphere do
most meteors occur?
How about Meteorite?
A meteorite is a solid body that is only
partially affected by its entrance into the
atmosphere and which collides with the
Earth.
Comet, Asteroid, or meteoroid.

A meteor is an object that burns up upon

entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. While
a meteorite is a debris that reach the
Meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an Earth’s surface.
object, such as?

Why does the words meteor and meteorite Meteoroid before meteor and meteor
not synonyms? before meteorite.

Now which comes first; meteor, meteoroids or

meteorite?

It was hit by a meteor Ma’am?

Class what do you think happened to this
place?

Yes, this picture is the Barringer meteor

crater, an iconic Arizona landmark, more than
1km wide and 170 meters deep, left behind by
a massive 300,000 tons meteorite that hit Earth
50,000 years ago with a force equivalent to a
ten-megaton nuclear bomb.

Can you imagine how strong and massive the

impact is?

There is a vast amount of rock and debris

floating around in space. About 100 tons of it
actually falls to Earth every day. Some of these
will reach the Earth’s surface and are
recovered as meteorites. Let us discuss how a
meteorite like this reach the Earth’s Surface.

Meteoroids. Comets (solar system small

bodies) are planetesimals that somehow did
not grow into bodies as large as the major
planets. They are thought to be remnants of
planetesimals were formed in the
protoplanetary disk and thus the reveal
important information about the formation of
our solar system. Dust grains about sub-
micrometer to centimeter in diameter are
ejected from these bodies and are moving
around the Sun as meteoroids.

Where do you think meteoroids came from?

Yes, this rock debris came from:

1. Asteroid Belt where asteroids reside.

 Asteroid belt can be found between the

paths of Mars and Jupiter.
 Many meteoroids are formed from
the collision of asteroids, which orbit the
sun.
 Large meteoroids are believed to come
from the asteroid belt.
 As asteroids smash into each other, they
produce crumbly debris—meteoroids. The
force of the asteroid collision can throw
 the meteoroid debris—and sometimes the
asteroids themselves—out of their regular
orbit. This can put the meteoroids on a
collision course with a planet or moon.

2. Kuiper Belt and Oort cloud where

Comets reside.

 Other meteoroids are the debris that

comets shed as they travel through
space. As a comet approaches the sun,
the “dirty snowball” of the
comet’s nucleus sheds gas and dust. The
dusty tail may contain hundreds or even
thousands of meteoroids and
micrometeoroids

3. Moon and Mars

 A very small percentage of meteoroids

are rocky pieces that break off from
the Moon and Mars after celestial bodies
—often asteroids or other meteoroids—
impact their surfaces.

Different meteoroids travel around the sun at

different speeds and in different orbits. The
fastest meteoroids travel through the solar system
at a speed of around 42 kilometers (26 miles) per
second.

Most meteoroids are made of silicon and oxygen

(minerals called silicates) and heavier metals like
nickel and iron. Iron and nickel-iron meteoroids
are massive and dense, while stony meteoroids
are lighter and more fragile.

Meteor. When a meteoroid enters through

Earth’s atmosphere. When the meteor hits the
atmosphere, the air in front of it compresses
incredibly quickly. When a gas is compressed,
its temperature rises. This causes the meteor Yes Ma’am!
to heat up so much that it glows. The air burns
the meteor until there is nothing left. Re-entry
temperatures can reach as high as 3,000
degrees F (1,650 degrees C)! This is called a
Meteor.
Have you heard about shooting stars class? Yes Ma’am!

They’re not really stars, because stars don’t fall

to the earth instead, they are meteors. And we Yes Ma’am!
can see a trail of light because of the strong air
resistance it encounters as it approaches the
Earth’s surface. Meteor Ma’am!

Don’t you think that’s fascinating?

Now have you heard of a meteor shower.

Where do you think it came from?

Yes, from the name itself, it came from meteors

and not only one but many of them. Several
meteors per hour can usually be seen on any
given night. Sometimes the number increases
dramatically—these events are termed meteor
showers. It’s like a series of shooting stars.

Meteorite. If a meteorite ends up hitting the

Earth’s surface usually about a size of a
pebble. It is then known as Meteorite.

The largest ever found is 3 meters wide, 66-ton

tablet shaped meteorite found in Namibia that
fell 80,000 years ago

Early Earth experienced many large meteors Meteoroid before meteor and meteor
impacts that caused extensive destruction. before meteorite.
While most craters left by ancient impacts on
Earth have been erased by erosion and other
geologic processes, the Moon’s craters are still
largely intact and visible. Today, we know of None Ma’am!
about 190 impact craters on Earth.

A very large asteroid impact 65 million years

ago is thought to have contributed to the
extinction of about 75 percent of marine and
land animals on Earth at the time, including the
dinosaurs. It created the 180-mile-wide (300-
kilometer-wide) Chicxulub Crater on the
Yucatan Peninsula.
So, class again which comes first meteorite,
meteoroid or meteor?

Very good you got it very well.

Do you have any questions?

If there is none, I think you are ready for our

next activity.

IV. EVALUATION
With the same groupings, discuss the definition different characteristics of meteoroid,
meteor and meteorite. After that write it using the diagram and choose 1
representative to present the output.

Assignment

In a one whole sheet of paper about the superstitious beliefs about meteors and
whether they have scientific basis. This will be equivalent to 20 points.