4th Quarter Lesson Plan
4th Quarter Lesson Plan
I. OBJECTIVES
The learner demonstrates an understanding of the earth’s rotation and
A. Content Standards
revolution
The Learners should be able to demonstrate the earth’s rotation and
B. Performance Standards
revolution
Differentiate between the rotation and revolution and describe the effects
C. Learning Competencies or Objectives
of the earth’s motions.
a. Most Essential Learning Differentiate between the rotation and revolution and describe the effects
Competencies (MELC) of the earth’s motions.
(If available, write the indicated MELC)
b. Enabling Competencies
II. CONTENT
III. PROCEDURES
What can you say about the movement of the following objects?
A. ENGAGE
ACTIVITY 10.1
Demonstrating Rotation and Revolution
Problem:
What is the difference between the rotation and the revolution of the earth?
1. Draw a circle to serve as the orbit of earth. Let one person in the group go to
the center. He/she will represent the sun.
2. Let one person hold the globe and spin it evenly counter clockwise not too fast,
while he/she walks completely around the person at the center of the circle. (As
it revolves around the sun, north end of the earth’s axis continues to point
toward a relatively stationery object. In the sky, it is called the North Star.) The
person at the center is revolving around him/her.
3. Notice the part lighted by the flashlight when the earth rotates sand revolves
around the sun.
What have you found out?
3. What have you noticed about the amount of light received by Earth as it
revolves around the sun?
● As the earth revolves around the sun, the place where light
shines the brightest changes. This motion gives us the
different seasons. For instance, the poles receive less light
than does the equator because of the angle that the land
around the poles receive the sun's light.
4. What do you think are the occurrences when Earth revolves around the sun?
● The Earth is constantly in motion, revolving around the Sun and rotating on
its axis. These motions account for many of the phenomenon we see as
normal occurrences: night and day, changing of the seasons, and different
climates in different regions.
Discuss:
Rotation- is the movement of earth on its axis. Earth roates from west to east. It is clockwise as
seen above the North Pole and Counter Clockwise as seen above South Pole. The period of
one complete rotation is defined as a day and takes 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.2 seconds.
Earth’s rotation is inclined or tilted 23.5 degrees relative to its plane of revolution around the
sub. The sun, moon, planets, and stars do not orbit around Earth everyday. It appears that the
way to us because we observe the sky from a planet that rorates once every day, or 15
degrees per hour.
⮚ The occurrence of day and night. Places facing the sun experience daytime while
those facing away from the sun experience nighttime. The length of daytime and
nighttime varies as Earth revolves around the sun.
⮚ The daily rising and setting of the sun, stars and the moon are the pattern of motion
visible in the sky. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, as do the moon,
planets, and the stars. These daily motions are the result from the earth’s rotation.
⮚ Earth’s rotation affects the flow of air and water on earth. Flowing air and water are
diverted from north-south direction to an east-west direction because of Earth’s
rotation. The diversion of direction is called the Coriolis effect.
Revolution is the movement of an object around the bigger object. Earth revolves around the
sun. Its orbit around the sun is in the form of a slightly flattened cirle called an ellipse. The sun
is hot at the center of the orbit, but is slightly off to one side. This explains why Earth’s distance
from the sun varies. It is closest to the sun at 147 million kilometers when it is in its orbit’s
perihelion. It is farthest from the sun at 152 million kilometers when it is in its orbit’s aphelion.
Earth revolves around the sun as it roates, or spins, on its axis. The period of one revolution
around the sun is defined as a year. One complete revolution of earth is 365.24 solar days or
365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. Earth’s axis is tilted. As it orbits the sun,
Earth’s axis remains fixed in space so that at one point, the northern hemisphere of earth is
tilted.
Axis orbit
Prepared by:
AILEEN B. AQUINO
Teacher III
Observed by:
Noted:
ERNESTO M. MIMAY
Principal II