Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION IV - A (CALABARZON)
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF IMUS CITY
GEN. EMILIO AGUINALDO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

NATIONAL LEARNING CAMP (NLC)

CONSOLIDATION CAMP

SCIENCE GRADE 8

Lesson Plan No: 7

Lesson Title: Comets & Asteroids
Week No: 2
Teaching Date: July 25, 2023
Teaching Time:

CURRICULUM REFERENCES
Curriculum K-12 (BEC)
Grade – Quarter Grade 8- Quarter 4
Domain Earth and Space
Content Section Other members of the Solar System
1. Comets
2. Meteors
3. Asteroids
Content Standard The learners demonstrate understanding of characteristics of
comets, meteors, and asteroids.
Performance The learner should be able to … discuss whether or not beliefs
Standard and practices about comets and meteors have scientific basis.
Learning Competency Compare and contrast comets, meteors, and asteroids; (S8ES-IIg-
(Code) 22)
Most Essential Same as Learning Competency 1 (Quarter 2; Week 6)
Learning Competency
(MELCs)
Lesson Objectives At the end of the lesson, learners can be able to:
1. compare and contrast comets, meteorites, and asteroids;
2. discuss the origin and fact about comets, meteors, and
asteroids; and
3. Acquire knowledge and apply things learned for everyday
living

Key Idea Understanding the origin of asteroids and comets, and their
motion, helps scientists to explain the nature and formation of
 the Solar System.
LEARNING RESOURCES
A. References
a. Teacher’s Materials Consolidation Learning Camp Science Teacher Notes pp.20-21
b. Learner’s Materials Consolidation Learning Camp Science Student Workbook pp.
21-23
c. Textbook Pages
d. Additional https://www.wattpad.com/73378429-private-property-ni-
Materials from author-do-superstitions-about#:~:text=The%20bad%20luck
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https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/181-What-is-the-
difference-between-an-asteroid-and-a-comet-#:~:text=The
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B. List of Learning Manila paper, marker, laptop, chalk, grade 8 consolidation

Resources for student workbook, and power point presentation about the
lesson
Development and
Engagement Activities
PROCEDURES
Component 1 - Direction: Answer the given questions below on your worksheet
Short Review (7min) for 5 minutes then a representative from each group will share
their answer on class.
Q1. What is the Solar System?
Q2. What are some members of the Solar System?
Q3. Try to visualize what the Solar System and the Universe look
like. How do members of the Solar System move in Space?

Sample answers:
Q1. • Our Sun and the celestial/planetary/astronomical objects that go
around it.
Q2. • Sun
• Planets
• Moons
• Asteroids
• Comets
• Meteors

Q3. • The planets move/orbit (go around) the Sun.

• The moons go around/orbit the planets.
• The Sun goes around/orbits the center of our galaxy along with our whole
Solar System.
Component 2 - The lesson is about understanding more deeply how asteroids and
Lesson comets form and travel in space and how they are visible or can
Purpose/Intention impact on Earth.
(3 min)
Component 3: Direction: Follow the instructions provided in each number.
Lesson Language 1. The teacher will read first the following difficult or unfamiliar
Practice (5 mins)
words or phrases. After the teacher, you will read them to
yourselves and then out loud as a class.
Asteroid, astronomy, astronomical, orbit, a million years, a
billion
years, vaporize

2. what might be the meaning or origin of the words, asteroid,

astronomy, and astronomical?
Sample answers:
Asteroid = Greek word asteroeides, which means, "starlike"
Astronomy = Greek astronomia, astronomos, literally "star-
regulating
Astronomical = Greek word asteroeides, which means,
"starlike"
Component 4:
Lesson Activity (25
mins)
Component 4A
Direction: Read the reading materials about comets and asteroids found on your
workbook on page 22 for 5 minutes.

Asteroids and Comets

Asteroids and comets are minor astronomical objects of the Solar System. The major
members of the Solar System are the Sun, the planets and their moons. Asteroids and
comets are thought by scientists to be leftovers from when the planets and moons formed
about 4.6 billion years ago. Asteroids and comets orbit the Sun as do the planets and moons,
but their sizes and movements vary a lot, and this can cause some of them to impact on
other members of the Solar System in interesting ways.

An asteroid is a rocky astronomical object, varying in size from about 500 kilometers
diameter to 10 meters diameter. Over 1 million have been identified but their total mass is
much less than the mass of the Moon. Most asteroids orbit in a region between the orbits of
Mars and Jupiter called the Asteroid Belt, which is between 329-478 million kilometers from
the Sun. Some asteroids are round, some are elongated, and some even have satellites.
Asteroids all orbit in the same direction as the planets. Asteroids usually have circular orbits
but these are more tilted than those of the planets. The time it takes for an asteroid to orbit
the Sun can vary
from 1-100 years.

A comet is composed of frozen gases, rocks and dust. A comet is usually about 10-15
kilometers in diameter. Comets tend to have elliptical orbits. When a comet gets close to the
Sun, its gases start to vaporize which makes the comet appear fuzzy. As the comet gets
closer to the Sun, the gases and dust sweep out from the comet, producing a glowing ‘tail’
that can be many thousands of kilometers long. Comets come from orbit belts beyond
Neptune, about 5.8 billion kilometers from the Sun. About four thousand comets have been
identified, but there must be thousands or millions more. Some comets orbit in the same
Component 4B Direction: The teacher will read the given questions below in
class then answer the questions in your workbook on p. 22 for 5
minutes.
Q1. What is generally typically bigger – an Asteroid or a Comet?
Q2. What features do Comets have that Asteroids do not have?
Q3. What is more likely to hit Earth, an Asteroid or a Comet?
Why?

Sample answers:
Q1. • An asteroid – it can be 500 km in diameter.
Q2. • Gases.
• Tails when they are near the Sun.
• Some travel around the Sun in different directions, Asteroids go the same
way as Earth.
• They can take 100,000 years to orbit the Sun; Asteroids only take 1000
years at the most.
Q3. • An Asteroid – because asteroids are generally closer to Earth – they
originate in the orbits between Mars and Jupiter – about 400 million kilometers
away and they orbit the Sun more quickly, maybe every 100 years. Comets
come from over 5 billion kilometers away and most don’t come by the Sun very
often – many would only come close to the Sun every 100,000 years.

Component 4C Direction: The teacher will read the given questions below in
class then answer the questions in your workbook on p. 23 for
10 minutes.
Q1. What type of energy and/or forces are likely to affect comets
as they travel closer to the Sun?
Q2. Make some labelled drawings to show the different shapes
that Asteroids and Comets can have.
Q3. If asteroids usually orbit in the Asteroid Belt between Mars
and Jupiter, what could cause an asteroid to head towards and
hit Earth?

Sample answers:
Q1. • Light, • heat, • gravity
Q2. • sample drawings:
 Q3. • It might have collided with another asteroid and that changed its
direction.
• It could move close to a large planet which would change its path due to
the planet’s gravity – gravitational attraction;
• It might have been from a bigger asteroid that collided and broke into
pieces, and it is a piece that is heading for Earth.

Component 5: Direction: Read and answer the following questions based on our
Lesson Conclusion discussion and activities performed.
(5 mins) 1. Has the activity helped you to think more about the astronomical
objects of the Solar System?
2. What did you enjoy about the lesson?
3. What is something you would like to learn more about in this
topic?

Prepared by:

EDGAR A. RIVERA
Master Teacher 1

Noted:

LUDOVICO R. RESUELLO JR.

OIC-Head Science Dept.

Approved:

ARTURO P. ROSAROSO
Principal IV