Learner’s Activity Sheet

Assessment Checklist

SCIENCE
Quarter 4 – Week 6

Solar and Lunar Eclipses

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Learner

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 TEACHER'S REFERENCE GUIDE (TRG)

School: Grade Level: 7

Teacher: Learning Area: Science
Teaching
Date: Quarter: 4 Week: 6

I. OBJECTIVES 1. Investigate the occurrence of solar and

lunar eclipses using a model.
2. Explain the alignment of the Earth, Moon,
and Sun in forming eclipses.
3. Discuss the phases of the moon that affects
the formation of eclipses.

a. Content The learners demonstrate understanding of the

Standard occurrence of eclipses.
b. Performance The learners should be able to analyze the
Standard advantage of the location of the Philippines in
relation to the climate, weather, and seasons.

c. MELC Explain how solar and lunar eclipses occur using

models.
II. SUBJECT MATTER Solar and Lunar Eclipses
a. References SCIENCE LINKS, Estrelita A. Madriaga, Ph.D, Meliza
P. Valdoz, Marites D. Aquino, Nenita A. Apolinario pp.
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361- 363
Section
Science 7 Dep.Ed.
https://www.timeanddate.com
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www.space.com
Teacher
b. Materials TRG, LAS, AC, Answer Keys, pictures, shoebox,
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flashlight/penlight, small plastic animal, pencil,
Parent
coin, or Guardian
white paper, masking tape,

c. Integration Appreciate God’s creations.

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School
III. PROCEDURE
ACTIVITY Activity 1: Shadow Play
(DO) The learner performs indoor investigation using
available localize materials following simple
procedures.
ANALYSIS Activity 2: Let’s Investigate!
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(THINK) Guide Questions:
Date of Retrieval
 1. What is formed on the white paper?
2. Does it look bigger or smaller than its original
size?
3. How are shadows of your mystery objects
formed?
ABSTRACTION Activity 3: Read and Remember
(LEARN) Discuss how the alignment of Earth, Moon, and
Sun forms eclipses. Discuss how the phases of
the moon affects the formation of eclipses.
APPLICATION Activity 4: Complete Me
(APPLY) Ask learner to complete each sentence by
supplying the blank spaces with word or group of
words correctly.
Evaluation Activity 5. Test your Knowledge
Instruct learner to choose the letter of the correct
answer from the questions asked.
SELF-ASSESSMENT Reflect on your learning.
 LEARNRS ACTIVITY SHEET (LAS)

Dear Learner, Solar and Lunar Eclipses

Good Day!
Shadow Play
 Welcome to our Science
subject. The activities for Directions: Perform indoor investigation using
this week will help you available localize materials following simple
understand how are procedures.
eclipses form. Please
carefully understand and Materials
follow the instructions Shoe box, white paper, tasking Tape, small
provided. If you encounter flashlight or penlight, small objects such as a
difficulties in doing the plastic animal, a pencil and a one-peso coin
tasks, do not hesitate to (serving as your mystery objects).
ask for support from your
parents or anyone whom
Procedures
you think can help you do
1. Make two openings on the shoebox, one on top
the activities. You can ask
and another at the
bottom.
2. Position the box in a way that one opening is facing you and the other
is facing forward. (see figure below)

Flashlight White
paper

3. Cover the opening that is facing forward with white paper and secure
it with tape. Leave the opening facing you open.
4. Put your right hand holding a flashlight or penlight inside the box
and focus the light coming from it on the white paper.
5. Place the mystery object (small plastic animal) closes to the light
coming from the flashlight. Observe the appearance of the object.
6. Repeat step 5 to another mystery objects (pencil first, then a coin)
and observe.
7. Write your observations on the blank spaces provided.

Observations: ______________________________________________________
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Let’s Investigate!
Directions: Briefly answer the questions asked.

1. What is formed on the white paper?

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2. Does it look bigger or smaller than its original size? Why?

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3. How are shadows of your mystery objects formed?

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Read and Remember

In your earlier grades, you learned about the members of the solar system. You know
that the Sun gives off light. As the different members of the solar system move
around the Sun, they block the light from the Sun and form shadows. What this
means is that planets have shadows, and even their moons have shadows, too. But we
cannot see the shadows that they form because we are far from them. The only
shadows that we can observe are the shadows of the Moon and Earth.
Properties of the Moon
The moon is about 384,400 kilometers away from the earth. It revolves around the Earth in an
elliptical orbit and in counterclockwise direction within a period of 27.3 days

Varied Phases of the Moon

When the Moon is between the Earth and Sun, the side
that faces the Earth is not lighted. This position, where
the moon is faintly visible on Earth, is the New Moon
phase. Two or three days later, a small portion of the
moon’s side becomes lighted in the form of a crescent,
whose “horns” are away from the Sun. In about a
week’s time after the new moon, the moon has reached
about one-fourth of its orbit around the earth, the side
of the moon that faces us is half-lit, and it is the First
Quarter phase.

As the moon continues to move in its orbit around the Earth, the lighted surface increases. When
the moon’s lighted portion becomes more than half appearing humped, the moon is in its Gibbous
phase. About two weeks after the new moon, the Moon has reached one-half of its orbit around
the Earth. The side of the moon that faces Earth is well-lit; this is the Full Moon phase.

From the full moon phase, the portion of the moon’s lighted surface begins to
shrink (waning phase) and the phases are repeated from gibbous to last quarter
to crescent time (this time, the “horns” are directed toward the Sun) to another
new moon, thus repeating the cycle of phases.

The planets and their satellites are opaque bodies in space. As they travel around the Sun, they
sometimes block the path of light coming from the sun and their shadow are cast. This shadow
casting happens when the Earth or the Moon intercepts the path of light coming from the Sun as
they revolve in their respective orbits. It’s here where solar and lunar eclipses occur.

What is a Solar Eclipse?

The shadow of the Moon cannot be noticed until it falls on Earth.
When it does, people in the place where the shadow falls experience
an eclipse of the Sun or a Solar eclipse. In areas where the umbra of
the moon falls, the eclipse is called total solar eclipse (see figure A).
In places where the penumbra falls, the eclipse is called partial solar eclipse (figure C).

There are times when the umbra of the Moon’s shadow fails to reach fully the Earth’s surface.
This happens when the moon is at apogee; consequently, a ring light (antumbra) surrounds the
umbra. Such type of eclipse is called an annular eclipse (figure B).

The Moon Eclipses the Sun

An eclipse of the sun happens when the New Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, blocking
out the Sun’s rays and casting shadow on parts of the Earth. The Moon’s shadow is not big
enough to engulf the entire planet, so the shadow is always limited to a certain area. This area
changes during the course of the eclipse because the Moon and the Earth are in constant motion.
Earth continuously rotates around its axis while it orbits the Sun, and the Moon orbits Earth. This
is why solar eclipses seem to travel from one place to another.

Types of Solar Eclipses

1. Partial solar eclipse occurs when the Moon only partially obscures the Sun’s disk and cast
only its penumbra on Earth.

2. Annular solar eclipse takes place when the Moon’s disk is not big enough to cover the entire
disk of the Sun, and the Sun’s outer edges remain visible to form a ring of fire in the sky. An
annular eclipse of the Sun takes place when the Moon is near apogee and the Moon’s antumbra
falls on Earth.

3. Total solar eclipse happens when the Moon completely covers the Sun. It can only take place
when the Moon is near perigee – the point of the moon’s orbit closest to earth. You can only see a
total solar eclipse if you’re in the path where the Moon casts its darkest shadow called umbra.

4. Hybrid solar eclipse is also known as annular - total eclipses are the rarest type. They occur
when the same eclipse changes from an annular to a total solar eclipse and/or vice versa, along the
eclipse’s path.

Protect Your Eyes

Never look directly at the Sun eclipse without any protective eyewear. The Sun’s radiation can
burn the retinas in your eyes leading to permanent damage or even blindness. The best way to
safely watch a total solar eclipse is to wear protective eclipse glasses or to protect an image of the
eclipsed sun using a pinhole projector.

What is a Lunar Eclipse?

Lunar eclipse occurs when Earth’s shadow blocks the sunlight, which otherwise
reflects off the Moon.
As the moon revolves around the Earth, it also passes on the Earth’s shadow. An eclipse of the
moon or lunar eclipse occur. Lunar
eclipse happens every full moon.
However, just like solar eclipse, it does
not happen every full moon because of
the tilting of the moon’s orbit.
Total eclipse of the moon happens when
the moon crosses the umbra of the Earth’s shadow. The moon frequently crosses the Earth’s
penumbra, but the shadow cast by the Earth on the moon’s surface is hardly visible.

Types of Lunar Eclipses

1. Total lunar eclipse. The earth’s full shadow known as umbral falls on the moon. The moon wont
completely disappears.

2.Partial lunar eclipse. Some eclipses are only partial. During the partial phase, the sun, earth and moon
are not perfectly aligned and the earths shadow appear to take a bite out of the moon.

3. Penumbral lunar eclipse. This is the least interesting type of eclipse because the moon is in earths faint
outer penumbral shadow.

What is Blood-Red Moon?

The Moon may turn red or coppery colored during the total portion of an eclipse. The red moon is possible
because while the moon is in total shadow, some light from the sun passes through Earth’s atmosphere and
is bent towards the moon. While other color in the spectrum are blocked and scattered by Earth’s
atmosphere, red light tends to make it through easier. The effect is to cast all the planet’s sunrises and
sunsets on the Moon. The exact color that the Moon appears depend on the amount of dusts and clouds in
the atmosphere.
A lunar eclipse can occur only at full moon. A total lunar eclipse can happen only when the Sun, Earth and
Moon are perfectly lined up. According to NASA, the maximum number of solar eclipses is four and
three lunar eclipses each year.

Complete Me
Directions. Complete each sentence by supplying the blank spaces with word or group of words.

1. The nearest point of the moon’s orbit around the earth is

called___________________________________________
2. The darkest part of a shadow cast by an opaque object is called______________________.
3. Lunar Eclipse can happen during__________________ phase.
4. Solar eclipse can happen during___________________ phase.
5. During an annular eclipse, the ring of light that surrounds the umbra is
called__________________________________.

ACTIVITY 5 Test your Knowledge

Directions. Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on the
space provided for.
The diagram below shows the Moon at four positions in its orbit around the earth.

Sunlight

Based from the diagram, answer item no.1.

______1. An observer on Earth could see a lunar eclipse when the Moon is at what
position?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4

______2. Below is an image of a partial solar eclipse as seen by an observer on

Earth. Which part of the shadow do you think the observer is watching?

Key

Moon

Sun

a. Penumbra of the Moon

b. Penumbra of the earth
c. Between the umbra and penumbra of the Moon
d. Between the umbra and penumbra of the Earth

_____3. Where on Earth can a lunar eclipse be observed?

 a. Daytime of northern hemisphere
b. Nighttime of northern hemisphere
c. Daytime of the northern and southern hemisphere
d. Nighttime of the northern and southern hemisphere

_____4., Which of the following is the maximum number of solar eclipses and
lunar eclipses each year as highlighted by NASA?

a. 1 solar eclipse and 1 lunar eclipse

b. 2 solar eclipses and 2 lunar eclipses
c. 3 solar eclipses and 2 lunar eclipses
d. 4 solar eclipses and 3 lunar eclipses
Self-Assessment
Directions: Answer the questions asked. Write your responses inside the boxes provided.

What I did?

What I Learned?

What I Earned?

ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST
 (To be accomplished by a parent or guardian)

Solar and Lunar Eclipses

Check ( ) the appropriate observation that corresponds to your child’s
performance in the accomplishment of the activities.

OBSERVATION

Accomplished

Accomplished

Accomplished
Partially
Bases for Evaluation Parent’s/Guardian’s

Fully
Not
Remarks

Activity 1: Activity 1: Shadow Play

The learner was able to perform
indoor investigation using available
localize materials following simple
procedures.
Activity 2: Let’s Investigate!
The learner was able to answer the
questions asked.

Activity 3: Read and Remember

The learner was able to internalize
the concepts on the alignment of
Earth, Moon, and Sun in forming
eclipses.
Activity 4: Complete Me
The learner was able to complete
the sentences by supplying the
blank spaces with word or group
of words correctly.
Activity 5. Test Your Knowledge
The learner was able to choose the
letter of the correct answer from the
questions asked.

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Name and Signature of Parent or Guardian
 Answer Keys

Activity 1: Shadow Play

 Answers may vary

Activity 2: Let’s Investigate

Q1. - There is a shadow form Shadows are form when there is a
blockage on the source of the light.

Q2 - It appears larger if the light source is nearer to the object

and smaller if the light source is farther.

Q3 – Answers may vary

Activity 4: Complete Me
1.APOGEE
2. UMBRA
3.FULL MOON/ 2ND QUARTER
4.NEW MOON/ FIRST
5.ANTUMBRA

Activity 5: Test Your Knowledge

1. c
2. b
3. d
4. b
5. d