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Auckland Zoo The Auckland Zoo task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a map of a zoo. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a map, a red pen, and a blue pen. This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps 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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Awesome Angles The Awesome Angles task allows students to demonstrate their ability to estimate angles through multiple choice questions. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Geometry task series from 2005 by NEMP. |
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Baby Giraffe The Baby Giraffe task allows students to demonstrate their ability to write a short news report to go with a photo. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is a video. This task is a part of the Functional Writing task series from 1998 by NEMP. |
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Backpack The Backpack task allows students to demonstrate their ability to add weights. Students will be presented with a set of items and their weights. They will select as many items as possible to put into a backpack without exceeding one kilogram. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Measurements 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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Bag of Beans The Bag of Beans task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of probability using colored beans. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are bags of beans (eight blue, eight, green, and eight orange) and a recording book. This task is a part of the Algebra and Statistics task series from 2001. 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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Bags The Bags task allows students to demonstrate their ability to evaluate decisions, strategies, outcomes, and consequences. Students will look at a pictures showing four different types of school bags. They will then choose which one is best for carrying all their school things, describe their reasons, and describe why the other bags were not good choices for them. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are four pictures. This task is a part of the Technological Knowledge & Understanding task series from 2008. 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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Baking The Baking task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete a pie graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a ruler and three colored pencils. 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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Balance The Balance task allows students to demonstrate their personal movement skills, their physical co-ordination, and their ability to manipulate equipment. Students will complete this task in open space. The resources required for this task are a balance rail (90 cm long, 4 cm wide), a large ball, and a bean bag. This task is a part of the Movement Skills task series from 1998. |
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Balancing Balloons The Balancing Balloons task allows students to understanding that air has mass, takes up space, and is more dense when compressed. Students will watch a video and answer seven questions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a video showing steps of the experiment. This task is a part of the Material World task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Ball Bounce The Ball Bounce task allows students to plan, carry out and report results for an experiment involving measuring the bounciness of balls. Students will then extrapolate and interpret their results. Students will complete this task working in teams. Resources required for this task include a tennis ball (yellow), a small rubber ball, a rubber ball (mottled), a soft foam ball (pink), a table tennis ball (white), a squash ball (black), a one meter folding ruler, an activity card, and a results sheet. This task is a part of the Physical World task series from 1999. 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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