Science8 Q2 Module3 (Week6)
Science8 Q2 Module3 (Week6)
SCIENCE 8
QUARTER 2 – MODULE 3:
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Science
Quarter 2 – Module 3:
EARTH and SPACE
Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors
(Week 6)
What I Need to Know
This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help
you master the nature of Near-Earth Objects(NEO). The scope of this module
permits it to be used in many different learning situations. The language used
recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students. The lessons are arranged to
follow the standard sequence of the course. But the order in which you read them
can be changed to correspond with the textbook you are now using.
Lesson 1 – Visitors from the Kuipers Belt and Oort Cloud (COMETS)
Lesson 2 – Visitors from Mars and Jupiter (ASTEROIDS)
Lesson 3 – The Most Often Visitors of the Earth
( METEOROIDS, METEORS AND METEORITES)
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What I Know
Directions: Read and answer the test item below by choosing the letter of the best
answer. Please use a separate sheet for your answer
B.
1. A piece of debris travelling through space which ranges in size from a grain
of sand to over 100ft in diameter.
2. A meteor that survives from falling through the atmosphere and strikes the
Earth’s surface.
3. Space objects ranging in size from 6 m to 933 km across that revolve around
the Sun and can be found in between Mars and Jupiter.
B. comets D. planet
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9. Asteroids are sometimes called__________.
A. constellation C. planetoid
10. Most of the asteroids orbit around the sun between the orbits of _________.
A. Earth and Mars C. Mars and Jupiter
13. When Halley’s Cometlast appeared in 1986 and its periodic appearance is
every 75-79 years, when will be its next appearance?
A. 2021-2076 C. 2052-2062
B. 2046-2050 D. 2061-2065
14. Which of the following will most likely happen when a comet or asteroid hits
the Earth?
A. No impact craters will be formed.
B. Impact will be negligible to cause great damage.
C. Plants and animals grow abundantly in the crash site.
D. Plant and animals will be affect near or on the crash site.
15. Why do meteors seem to originate from only one point in the sky during a
meteor shower?
A. Meteoroids are traveling in parallel paths at the same velocity.
B. Meteoroids are travelling in perpendicular paths.
C. Meteors survive burning in the atmosphere.
D. Comets travel away from the sun.
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Lesson Visitors from the Kuiper’s
1 Belt and Oort Cloud
(COMETS)
What’s In
Look upon a bright night sky? Aside from the stars and the moon can you
see other objects in the sky? Can you identify and describe them?
In this lesson you will find out what comets are and what materials that made
them. You will go through its composition and what do scientists usually called a
comet. Images are provided for you to visualize and amaze you on what does a
comet looks like, what materias that made them and what makes it different among
the other members of the solar system.
What’s New
What is a Comet?
A comet is an icy body that releases gas or dust that when passing close to
the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing. This
produces a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also a tail. They often
compared to dirty snowballs, and some scientists called them dirtballs. A comet
contains dust, ice, carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane and more.
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What is It
Comets orbit around the sun. As a comet gets closer to the sun, the ice on
the surface of nucleus begins turning into gas, forming a cloud known as the coma.
The radiation from the sun pushes dust particles away from the coma, forming a
dust tail, while charged particles from the sun convert some of the comets gases
into ions, forming an ion (or plasma) tail. Scientist also discovered the third type of
comet tail which is a faint of sodium. Comet tails are always pointing away from
the sun since they are shaped by sunlight and the solar wind. A Comet has the
following parts namely:
You can see a number of comets with the naked eye when they pass close to
the sun because of their comas and tail reflect sunlight or even glow because of
energy they absorb from the sun. However, most comets are too small to be seen
without a telescope. Long period comets come from the Oort Cloud, which is
beyond our Solar System while short live comets come from the Kuipers Belt,
which is just beyond the Neptune’s Belt.
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Comets leave traces of debris behind them that seen as meteor showers on
earth. Comets are named after their discoverer for instance; comet Shoemaker-Levy
9 got its name because it was ninth short-periodic comet discovered by Eugene
and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy.
One of the famous comets that constantly visits the earth every 75-79 years
and visible to the naked eye when it nears the sun is Halley’s Comet. It was
named after its discoverer – Edmund Halley. When Halley’s Comet zoomed near
Earth in1986, five spacecraft flew past it and gathered unprecedented details,
coming close enough to study its nucleus, which is normally concealed by the
comet’s coma.
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What’s More
GUIDE QUESTIONS:
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What I Have Learned
Directions: Write and enumerate five sentences on what you have learned from our
lesson.
1._______________________________________________________________________________
2._______________________________________________________________________________
3._______________________________________________________________________________
4._______________________________________________________________________________
5._______________________________________________________________________________
What I Can Do
Objectives: Identify the characteristics, composition and the origin of the Comets.
Directions: Fill the table below what are the characteristics of the Comets.
COMETS
Composition
Origin
Parts
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GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. Why do we not see comets often?
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
2. They said that Halley’s Comet constantly visits the earth every 75-79 years and
visible to the naked eye when it nears the sun. When Halley’s Comet zoomed near
Earth in1986, when is the next visit?
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
3. Ask your parents or your grandparents about their ancient beliefs about visiting
comets to earth and how it affects their way of living.
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
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Lesson
ASTEROIDS:Visitors from
2 Mars and Jupiter
What’s In
In your previous topic you have learned about comets and its components.
In this lesson you will learn about Asteroids and why they are called Visitors from
Mars and Jupiter. In the late 1700s, many astronomers were hunting for an
additional planet they thought should exist in the gap between the orbits of Mars
and Jupiter but to their surprise these objects are different from planets. Images
are provided for you to visualize and amaze you on what does an asteroid looks like
and and what makes them different from a planet.
What’s New
What is an Asteroid?
Asteroids are rocky fragment ranging in size from 6 m to 933 km across that
revolve around the Sun in more elliptical orbit. Millions of asteroids can be found in
the asteroids (found between Mars and Jupiter) belts that are less than 1 km in
diameter. More than 750,000 are bigger, and of those, at least 200 are more than
100 km across.
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Figure 3: Asteroid
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What is It
The outer part of the asteroids belt are compose mainly of carbon, while
those located in the inner part of the belt are made up primarily of Silicate
(Oxygen, silicon and one metal) minerals, from melted objects.
It is believe that they are the result of collisions of much larger objects
occurring around the time that our solar system was formed. In fact they are also
called planetoids or minor planets. Some asteroids, on the other hand, are derived
from the tails of Comets.
In February 2013, Asteroid 2012 DA14 made a very close approach to Earth
as it orbited the Sun. In December 2012, Asteroid Toutalis also made a near
approach to Earth but not as close as Asteroid 2012 DA 14.
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What’s More
•sand/flour/starch
2. Throw a stone to hit the sand/flour/starch in the tray. Do this about four times,
hitting different parts of the flour in the tray/basin.
3. Observe the crater size made by asteroids (your rock drops) of different sizes.
Compare it with the impact crater photo shown below.
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GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. What do you notice about the shape, diameter and deep of your stone’s
crater?________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. What do you think will happen to the plants and animals living in the area
where the asteroid crashed?
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
1.____________ are rocky fragment ranging in size from 6 m to 933 km across that
revolve around the Sun in more elliptical orbit.
2. The outer part of the asteroids belt are compose mainly of___________, while
those located in the inner part the belt are made up primarily of Silicate(Oxygen,
silicon and one metal) minerals, from melted objects.
4. It is believe that they are the result of collisions of much larger objects occurring
around the time that our solar system was formed. In fact they are also
called______________________. Some asteroids, on the other hand, are derived
from the tails of Comets.
5. In______________ 2013, Asteroid 2012 DA14 made a very close approach to Earth
as it orbited the Sun. In December 2012, Asteroid Toutalis also made a near
approach to Earth but not as close as Asteroid 2012 DA 14.
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What I Can Do
Rubric Score:
5 4 3 2
Score
Criteria
Relevance to Posters are Poster shows Nice poster Poster’s
the topic greatly related relevance to but does not meaning is not
to the topic. the topic. support the clear and does
topic. not support
the topic.
Neatness of Neat and Presentable Lacks the Slogan or
work pleasant to and has nice ability to poster is
look at with combination of combine colors messy and
good colors. and a little bit dirty.
combination of messy.
colors
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The Most Often Visitors of
Lesson
the Earth
3 METEOROIDS, METEORS,
AND METEORITES
What’s In
In the previous lessons you have learned about comets and asteroids. In
this lesson you will learn about Meteoroids, meteors and meteorites; and why they
are called the most often visitors of the Earth.
What’s New
Do you know that on the average, more than 40 tons of dust and debris fall
into the Earth’s atmosphere every day and are burned up as it falls toward the
ground? Mostly are too small to be visible, but sometimes a larger piece will burn
long enough to be seen in the night sky. What is exciting is that sometimes these
pieces survive to journey through our atmosphere and strike the surface of the
Earth. Do you know what are these pieces of rocks from outer space are?
Figure 5: (a)
Scientist collecting
meteorite from Miller
Range in Antartica
and (b) Martian
Meteorite found in
North Africa. Photo
obtained from Solar
System.NASA.gov
a b
. .
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What is It
A piece of debris travelling through space that ranges in size from a grain
Meteors are dust or sand grain sized pieces of rock which speed through space up
to tens or hundreds of kilometre a second and when they enter the Earth’s
atmosphere they burn up, creating bright strikes in the sky known as “shooting
stars” or a falling star.
The meteor shower is named after the constellation where they seem to
originate from, like the meteor shower Taurid and Geminid from the constellation
Taurus and Gemini often observe during the month of November and December,
but this does not mean that the meteoroids come from the associated constellation.
Remember: a meteor and a meteor shower are light phenomena; they are not
stars.
A meteor that survives from falling through the atmosphere and strikes the
Earth’s surface is called a meteorite. Some are as small as a pebble, others are
very large. Often, large meteors break up into many smaller meteorites on impact.
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Have you heard the news about a meteoroid exploded over Russia on February
2013?
Photo
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What’s More
Directions: Listed below are the places where you can find space debris. Tell
whether the debris you find would be a meteoroid, a meteor, or a meteorite.
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B. Show where a meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite are most likely to be found in
the diagram below. Use the following symbols for each: meteor ;
meteoroid ; meteorite .
Outer Space
Atmosphere
(Earth)
Crust
Directions: Read each sentence carefully and fill in the correct word/s to complete
the sentence.
3. Meteor that can be seen in the night sky are sometimes called as_______.
5. A meteor that survives from falling through the atmosphere and strikes
the Earth’s surface is called a ___________.
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What I Can Do
Directions: Complete the Venn diagram using the given characteristics below. Write
the number only.
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Celestial visitors like comets, asteroids, and meteors have always captured
the imagination of ancient civilizations. They have been thought of as bad omens or
signs of great change or challenge such as ushering disasters and wars.
But with new scientific processes and tools, as well as great access to
scientific information, these celestial visitors have gained the appreciation and
interest of many people, scientists and non-scientists included, all over the world.
Additional Activities
If you wish to have access to the internet, there are several videos that will help you
go through understanding the concept of comet/asteroids and meteors. Here are
some you can easily access:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygqwP62Qwzl
Assessment
Directions: Read and answer the test item below by choosing the letter of the best
answer. Please use a separate sheet for your answer.
1. Which of the following space objects ranging in size from 6 m to 933 km across
that revolve around the Sun and can be found in between Mars and Jupiter?
A. Asteroids C. Meteors
B. Comets D. Meteoroids
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4. Which is more likely a “frequent visitor” of the Earth?
A. Asteroids C. Moon
B. Comets D. Planet
A. constellation C. planetoid
7. Most of the asteroids orbit around the sun between the orbits of _______.
A. As a comet moves.
B. As a comet gets closer to the sun.
C. As the Comet revolves around the sun.
D. As the Comet revolves around the Earth.
9. Which is NOT a composition of comets?
A. Ice C. Frozen Gases
B. Silicates D. Organic compounds
10. When Halley’s Comet last appeared in 1986 and its periodic appearance is
every 75-79 years, when will be its next appearance near Earth?
A. 2071-2076 C. 2052-2062
B. 2061-2065 D. 2046-2050
11. Which of the following will most likely happen when a comet or asteroid hits the
Earth
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12. Why do meteors seem to originate from only one point in the sky during a meteor
shower?
14. Atmosphere
15. Crust
Answer Key
10. C
9. C
8. B
7. A
6. D
15. A 5. C
14. D 4. D
13. D 3. A
12. C 2. C
11. C 1. D
test)
What I Know (Pre
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What”s More
What I Can Do What’s More
Activity 3.1
Activity 2.2 Draw Activity 2.1How
Part A. Me! Great Is The Impact?
1.meteoroid The students have
2.meteorite varied outputs.
3.meteorite The students have
4.meteor varied outputs.
5 meteoroid
6.meteor
7.meteorite
8.meteorite
Part B.
Outer space- O
Atmosphere -♥
Crust - ∆
What I Can do What I Have What’s More;
Activity 1.2 Learned Activity 1.1
Wish Upon A Star The students have Let’s Meet and Greet
varied outputs. comets
The students have
varied outputs. The students have
varied outputs.
Answer Key
15. Meteorites
14. Meteors
13. Meteoroids
12. A
11. A
What I Can Do:
10. B
ACTIVITY 3.2 ARE WE RELATED OR
NOT?
9. C
8. C
7. D
6. C
Comets Asteroids
5. A
4. A 2
4,4 5& 9 ,
3. D 5&7
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2. C 1
1. A 3 6
3 5,7
Assessment
8 & 10
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Meteors
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SUMMATIVE EVALUATION
LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEETS (Week 6)
LESSON 1,2,3
Characteristics/Features
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PERFORMANCE TASK
RUBRICS
3 points 2 points 1 point Score:
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References
A. Websites
https://image.app.goo.gl/njsgkBsLnHBnzkry
https://images.app.goo.gl/32LTdGtyLWvCBKiJA
https://images.app.goo.gl/7sqde2ufusgfkqyr8
https://www.space.com/amp/19878-halleys-comet.html
https://interestingfactsblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/facts-about-halleys-
comet.html
https://www.google.com/search?ei=j05cXY7tOM76-
Qad37flBg&q=images+of+comets#imgrc=LSoR_PB8gg1PpM
https://www.google.com/search?ei=jO5cXY7tOM76-
Qad37flBg&q=images+of+comets#imgc=LSoR_PB8gg1PpM
https://solarsystem.nasa.govgalleries
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rica.com%2Fimages-medium-large-5%2Fthe-barringer-meteor-crater-
rod-jones.html&bnid=97B5smYhHYzOrM&vet=12ahUKEwjgs
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Pacheco, M. G. (2015). Grade 8 Science Modules. In M. G. Pacheco, Grade 8
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