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A Place to Live The A Place to Live task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of the natural features of a place that makes it suitable for a purpose. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a video, a laptop computer, and a postcard. This task is a part of the Place and Environment task series from 2001 by NEMP. |
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A Tale of Two Donkeys The A Tale of Two Donkeys task allows students to demonstrate their ability to rearrange pictures and create a story. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a title page, six pictures, and a stapler. This task is a part of the Expressive Writing task series from 1998 by NEMP. |
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ANZAC Day The ANZAC Day task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify information needs for a purpose. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a picture of a webpage. This task is a part of the Clarifying Information Needs task series from 2005. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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ANZAC Day Talk The ANZAC Day Talk task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify information needs for a purpose. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a picture of a web page. This task is a part of the Clarifying Information Needs task series from 2005 by NEMP. |
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Accident Report The Accident Report task allows students to demonstrate their ability to retell an event. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task is a video recording and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Functional Writing task series from 2002. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Accidents The Accidents task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of injury management and precautions to take when treating a spinal injury. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are three pictures. This task is a part of the Personal Health and Physical Development task series from 2006. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments |
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Acid or Base The Acid or Base? task allows students to test if five solutions to see if they are acids or bases using litmus paper. Students will complete this task working in stations. Resources required for this task include five small sample cups with solution in each (orange juice, cleaner, vinegar, water, baking soda), a layout sheet, six teaspoons, This task is a part of the Material World task series from 2003. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Acids Around the Home The Acids Around the Home task allows students to test and sort household substances by whether they are acids, bases, or neither. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include lemon juice, vinegar, baking soda, orange drink, water, a water jug, five spoons, five spatulas, litmus paper blue & pink, five small containers, paper towels, a results sheet, and an A4 laminated layout sheet. This task is a part of the Material World task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Addition (Y4) The Addition (Y4) task allows students to demonstrate their ability to add without using a calculator. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Number & Algebra task series from 2009. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Addition (Y8) The Addition (Y8) task allows students to demonstrate their ability to add without using a calculator. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Number & Algebra task series from 2009. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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