DETAILED LESSON PLAN

in
SCIENCE 8
I. OBJECTIVES
A. Content Standards The learners demonstrate understanding of the characteristics of comets,
meteors, and asteroids.
B. Performance The learners should be able discuss whether or not beliefs and practices about
Standard comets and meteors have scientific basis
C. Learning Compare and contrast comets, meteors, and asteroids
Competencies/Objectives
II. CONTENT
Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors
III. LEARNING
RESOURCES
A. References
1. Teacher’s Guide Pages
2. Learner’s Materials
Pages
3. Textbook Pages

4. Additional Materials
from Learning Resource
(LR) Portal

B. Other Learning https://.CometsAsteroidsandMeteors.com

Resources

IV. PROCEDURES Teacher’s Activity Student’s

Activity
A. Reviewing previous Good morning class! Good morning
lesson or presenting a Sir!
new lesson To formally start our class this day, let’s have first a
prayer.

Are all is present? Yes Sir!

Very good.

B. Establishing a At the end of the lesson the student should be able to

purpose for the lesson compare and contrast comets, meteors, and asteroids,
compare and contrast comets and asteroids; and
identify the characteristics of a meteoroid, meteor and
meteorite
C. Presenting
Examples/instances of
the new lesson
 Watch this video.

What is
the video all about?

About Comets,
Asteroids, and
Meteors
D. Discussing new
concepts and practicing Look up in the sky! It’s a comet!
new skills #1
Comets and asteroids are referred to by astronomers as
Near-Earth Objects (NEO).
Comets are icy bodies or objects while asteroids are rocky
fragments. They are remnants from the formation of our
solar system 4.6 billion years ago

Comets and asteroids both orbit around the sun. This

means, you can see a comet for up to a year in the night
sky. The major difference is their origin or where they
came from in space.

Comets usually come from the Oort Cloud which is

beyond our solar system, and a few from Kuiper Belt,
which is just beyond Neptune’s orbit.

Asteroids, on the other hand, originate from the Main

Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Another difference between a comet and an asteroid is

their chemical composition. Sometimes, a comet may
contain other elements like sodium or argon while asteroid
is mostly composed of rock (silicates) and metals (iron
and nickel being the usual metals).

Characteristic Comet Asteroid

Origin Oort cloud and Main Asteroid
Kuiper Belt Belt
Shape Varied/Irregular Varied/Irregular
 Size range 1-10 (nucleus only) 1- 100
diameter
Chemical Ice (frozen Silicates, iron,
composition water);frozen nickel
gases (ammonia,
methane and
carbon dioxide);
other organic
compounds
Orbit Highly elliptical More rounded
Orbital period 75 – 100,000 plus 1-100
(years)

E. Discussing new
concepts and practicing You have probably seen a shooting star in the night sky,
new skills #2 right?

Are meteor showers and shooting star the same?

That streak of light you see in the atmosphere which seems

to appear falling on the ground, is called a meteor. Truth
be told, meteors that look like “shooting stars” are not
stars at all.

When Earth’s orbit passes through a trail of comet debris,

there are many meteors visible in a single night – a
phenomenon called meteor shower.

In fact, a meteor is a light phenomenon that occurs when a

meteoroid burns up as it enters the earth’s atmosphere.

A meteoroid is a broken up rock and dust from either a

comet, asteroid, from the Moon or from Mars. A
meteoroid becomes a meteor when it falls through the
atmosphere, and we see it shoot across the sky.

How are a meteor, meteoroid and meteorite

related from one another?
You already know that meteoroid can come from a comet
or an asteroid.

Meteoroids, which are made from dust and fragments of a

comet, hurl through the atmosphere so fast that they heat
and actually burn very brightly.

We then observe many streaks of light from the night sky

which is called meteors.

But every now and then, large meteors make it all the way
to the Earth’s atmosphere, and fall to the ground (Earth’s
crust) – then they are called meteorites.
 None Sir.

Any Clarifications?

F. Developing Mastery Activity

(Lead to Formative
Assessment #3 Procedures:

1. Group the class into 5.

2. Each group will determine on who will be their Group
Leader, Scribe, and Reporter.
3. This activity should be finish within 10 minutes.
4. After 10 minutes the group member would be posting
their write ups on the board.
5. And the reporter of each group will present it to the
class.

Note: This activity will perform by group but the

observations should be answered individually.

Who Am I?
Directions: You are to identify whether the description
below matches that of a comet, asteroid or a meteor. Put a
check (/) to all the boxes that apply.

Comet Asteroid Meteor

Forms belt
between
Jupiter and
Mars
Orbits
around the
sun
also called
“shooting
stars”
Found in
the Oort
cloud and
Kuiper
belt
Usually
burn up in
the
 atmosphere
Ball of gas
and dust
G. Finding practical This topic integrated in ESP.
applications of concepts
and skills in daily living Why Honesty is the best Policy? (Answers may
vary)

Respect in one’s belief.

H. Making What have you learned in our lesson? Comet and
generalization and asteroids
abstractions about the
lesson What is comet? An Asteroid? and meteors?

How these heavenly body differ from each other? (answers may
vary)

I. Evaluating learning Compare and contrast

Directions: Use the Venn diagram below to make a

comparison between a comet and an asteroid. Write
characteristics that only a comet possesses in the left side
of the circle and characteristics of an asteroid on the right
side. Write the similarities of a comet and an asteroid in
the center circle. Choose your answers from the word bank
provided for you below.

COMET ASTEROID
BOTH
Venn Diagram
COMETWord bank
AND
ASTEROID
Varried/Irregular shape a type of NEO
Highly elliptical
Made from icy objects comes from Oort cloud
more rounded orbit

Made from rocky fragments comes from Asteroid

belt made from silicates
Orbits the sun comes from Kuiper Belt
“leftovers” from solar system

PART B.
Draw me the symbol
Directions: Show where a meteoroid, meteor, and
meteorite are most likely to be found in the
diagram below.
Use the following symbols:
meteor
 meteoroid
meteorite

J. Additional Activities Gather 1 or 2 superstitions about meteor and asteroids by

for Application or interviewing your parents and elders in your house.
Remediation

V. REMARKS
A. No. of Learners who
earned 80% in the
evaluation
B. No. of learners who
require additional
activities for
Remediation
C. Did the remedial
lessons work? No. of
learners who have
caught up with the lesson
D. No. of learners who
continue to require
remediation

Prepared by:
John Mark F. Semillano

Additional activity rubrics:

4 3 2 1
MAIN POINTS main points are main points with
main points are present but all poor
main points are well
present but lacks development development of
developed with
may lack detail ideas
supporting details
and development
ORGANIZATIO Very well organized Clear words are Some pieces of Arrangement of
N and informative used information are essay is unclear
not clear and is and illogical
hard to follow