LESSON PLAN IN SCIENCE

I.

Objectives. At the end of a 60 mins. period at least 75% of the students

should be able to:
a. Define comets, meteors and asteroids.
b. Compare and contrast comets, meteors and asteroids.
c. Explain the regular occurrence of meteor shower.

II.

Subject Matter: Other members of Solar System

(comets, meteors, asteroids)
Reference: Mrowencom. (2016). Mrowencom. Retrieved 23 September, 2016,
from http://mrowen.com/sci9/solarsystem/solarsystem110.pdf
Materials: picture of comets, meteors and asteroids, PowerPoint, video, flash cards

III.

Procedures
A. Motivation/ Ice breaker
Drill (flash pictures of planets)
What planet is this?
B. Unlocking Difficult Terms
Comets- are small objects composed of rock and ice which orbit the
sun.
Meteor-is a rock which passes through the Earths atmosphere.
Asteroids- consist of large irregular chunks or rocks.
C. Lesson Proper
There are many other members of the solar system besides the nine planets and
their moons. They are all quite small and appear mostly to be left overs formed
during the early evolution of the Solar system.
Comets are small objects composed of rock and ice which orbit the sun. The ice
is frozen water, ammonia, methane, and carbon dioxide. They are like dirty
snowballs. As they approach the sun, the heat warms up the comet and ice
vaporizes. The gases emitted, form a tail. The tail is always directed away from the
Sun, because of the solar wind, which consists of particles which are emitted by the
Sun. the best known comet is Halleys comet. It is several kilometers in diameter. It
orbits the Sun once every 76 years. Its highly elliptical orbits extend past the orbit of
Neptune.
Whenever a meteoroid enters the atmosphere of the Earth, it
generates a flash of light is called a meteor (shooting star). Meteorite is a
meteor which survives until it hits the ground. There are two types of
meteorites; stones and irons.
a. Stony meteorites- similar to ordinary rocks.
b. Iron meteorites composed of iron and nickel like Earths core.
The ratio of stones to irons is about 10:1. This ratio suggests that a
small planet with an
iron core and a rocky exterior (like Earth) was
destroyed in a collision. It appears that many meteorites may have
originated from within the asteroid belt. A large meteorite created the
Barringer crater (diameter =1200 m) near Winslow Arizona, USA.
Meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to
radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by
streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at
extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories.
The Asteroids consist of large irregular chunks of rock which the
astronomers believe are the remains of a shattered planet of the leftovers

from the formation of the planets. Ceres is the largest, with the diameter of
100 km. some appear to be rocky, while others appear to be metallic.
Thousands of asteroids lie in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter at a
distance of about 2.8 times the Earth to sun distance this is the Asteroid
belt. some asteroids escape the belt and cross the Earths orbit.

IV.

Assessment
In crosswise paper.
Identification: Identify the following statement. Write your answer on your paper.
1. Consist of large irregular chunks.
2. Is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate,
originate, form one point in the sky.
3. Also called shooting star.
4. small objects composed of rock and ice which orbit the sun.
Answer this following.
1.What Are the Differences Between an Asteroid, Comet, and Meteor?
2.Why meteor showers occur?

V.

Assignment
Make a research about the belief and practices about comets and meteors. Write it in
your assignment notebook.

Prepared by: Earlyn Joy V. Eniola