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Ani's Place The Ani's Place task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a town map using a scale. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a map of a town, a ruler, and a red pencil. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Animal Adaptation - Spider In the Animal Adaptation - Spider task, students will look at a picture of a spider and describe the parts of the spider that help it to survive. Students will complete this task working in stations. Resources required for this task are a picture of a spider and a recording book. This task is a part of the Living 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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Animal Adaptations - Praying Mantis The Animal Adaptations - Praying Mantis task allows students to observe and describe the structural features of a praying mantis that are considered to be adaptive features with survival value. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a picture of a praying mantis. This task is a part of the Living World task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Animal Adaptations - Snail The Animal Adaptations - Snail task allows students to observe and describe the structural features of a snail that are considered to be adaptive features with survival value. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a picture of a snail. This task is a part of the Living World task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Animal Add Ups The Animal Add Ups task allows students to demonstrate their ability to construct a tally and a bar graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are an animal card, a ruler, a table, and a clank grid in a work book. This task is a part of the Construction of Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2007. 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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Animal Families The Animal Families task allows students to recognize common characteristics of mammals. Students will revise, apply and justify a simple classification for a small sample of animals. Students will complete this task working in teams. Resources required for this task are three sets of cards: SET 1— dog, horse, baby; SET 2— birds and insects (eight cards); SET 3— mouse, spider, seal, weta. This task is a part of the Living World task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Animals of the World The Animals of the World task allows students to demonstrate their ability to classify a set of cards into appropriate groups. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are twenty-one picture cards, an envelope, an instruction card, six folders, and four ballpoint pens. This task is a part of the Analyzing and Classifying Information task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Another Way The Another Way task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of both simplified and mixed fractions. In this task students will look at a fraction and write it in another way. 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 2005 by NEMP. |
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Any Good? The Any Good? task allows students to demonstrate their ability to evaluate design and select adaptations. Students will look at a drawing of a computer chair and will discuss the good features and the areas that could be improved. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are This task is a part of the Technological Capabilities task series from 2004 by NEMP. |
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Aotearoa The Aotearoa task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of the naming of Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a map of Aotearoa/ New Zealand. This task is a part of the Culture and Heritage task series from 2001 by NEMP. |
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