School Milibili National High School Grade Level 8

Daily Lesson Log Teacher SOPHIA A. ARTATES Learning Area SCIENCE

Teaching Dates and Time October 1-4, 2019 Quarter 2nd

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Compare comets, meteors and asteroids just looking at the Describe the changes that happens to a fragment from a comet or Gives example of
picture; and asteroid as it enters Earth’s atmosphere; and superstitions beliefs about
comets, asteroids and
I. OBJECTIVES Describe how impact craters are formed when a comet or Represent the relationship between a meteoroid, meteor and meteors.
asteroid hits Earth based on a simulation meteorite using a diagram;
Explain superstitions and
practices if they are true
and have scientific basis
A .Content Standards The learners demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics of comets, meteors and asteroids.
B .Performance Standards The learners shall be able to discuss whether or not beliefs and practices about comets and meteors have scientific basis.
C. Learning S8ES-IIg-22
Competencies/
Objectives
II. SUBJECT MATTER
A. Concepts
Visual Aids
B. Materials
Video clip
107-108 Learner’s Material
C. References
133-135
D. Process Skills
E. Values Integration
III. LEARNING TASKS
A picture of a comet and asteroid will be posted on the board The teacher will show the Russian Meteor Explosion happened last Challenge the students by
and students will be asked to take a keen look February 2012 asking:

A. Elicit What are superstitions?

Ask some students to cite
some examples of
superstitions they know.
Relate the stories given by the students to the new lesson. Ask the students to check if all the materials needed for the study is
B. Engage
available.
Activity 1. What happens when a comet or an asteroid hits Activity 2. Meteor, meteoroid, and meteorite: How are they related? Ask the students to do
Earth? activity on “Do
Superstitions about
C. Explore
comets, asteroids and
meteors have scientific
basis?”
D. Explain 1. What do you notice about the shape of your pebble’s 1. What is a meteor? Do superstitions about
crater and the impact crater shown in the photo? 2. What is a meteoroid? comets and asteroids have
 2. What do you think happened to the plants and animals 3. From what celestial (space) objects can a meteoroid come scientific basis? Why?
living in the area where the comet or asteroid crashed? from? Why not?
3. Which is most likely to make a more frequent “visitor” 4. What causes a meteor?
of Earth: comet or asteroid? Why do you think so? 5. How can you differentiate a meteor from a comet when
viewed from Earth?
What is a meteor shower?
 Meteors are small pieces of space debris pulled into Earth’s Superstition is a pejorative
• Comets and asteroids are Near Earth Objects (NEO). atmosphere by gravity. term for belief in
• They also rotate on their own axes.  Meteorites are metallic rocks broken off from asteroids and supernatural causality: that
• Comets are of two types based on their origin: long comet. one event leads to the
period comets came from Oort cloud and short period comets  The comet breakup as they pass near the Sun or from cause of another without
came from Kuiper’s belt collision of two asteroids. any natural process linking
• Long period comets completes its orbit around the Sun the two events, such as
for 200 million years and above while Short period comets astrology, religion, omens,
takes only 75 to 150 million years to complete its journey to the witchcrafts, etc., that
Sun. contradicts natural
• Examples of comets are: science. Since comets
Halley’s comet which appears last 1986 that orbits the appear in the sky without
Sun every 76 years. any warning, people in
Hale – Bopp comet considered as long-period comet classical times and
E. Elaborate
appeared in 1997 especially during the
Middle Ages believed that
they had a special
meaning, which, of course,
was bad. Since a natural
catastrophe of some sort
or a military conflict occurs
every year, it was quite
simple to blame the comet
that happened to be
visible. But even in the
past, there were some
people who used logical
reasoning.
Activity 1 worksheet on Comet and Asteroid Pair Work: 5-item quiz on
superstitious beliefs.
F. Evaluate
Let the students work with a partner in answering the guide
questions.
The Alvarez hypothesis proposes that there is an asteroid that Alvarez Hypothesis proposed that an asteroid with approximately 10
had made an impact on Earth during the Cretaceous period 65 kilometers in diameter made impact with Earth 65 million years ago.
million years ago. With the evidence stated on that hypothesis They thought that the impact caused materials to be thrown up in air,
G. Extend
will there be possibility that this is the same asteroid that leads thus blocking sunlight, and bringing about a period of winter long
to the extinction of dinosaurs? Prove or refute. enough to cause a mass extinction of plants and animals, including
the dinosaurs.
IV. ASSIGNMENT
V. REMARKS