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Cone Catch The Cone Catch 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 cone and a small ball. This task is a part of the Movement Skills task series from 1998. |
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Consumer Kids The Consumer Kids task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use information to make choices. Students will complete this task working stations. The resources required for this task are a chart, a placement board, eight cards, and an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Thinking About and Using Information 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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Cookie Time The Cookie Time task allows students to demonstrate their ability to evaluate decisions, strategies, outcomes, and consequences. Students will look at a series on stills on a computer that tell a story and will then answer questions. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a series of stills on laptop computer and Cookie Time biscuit. 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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Cooking The Cooking task allows students to evaluate decisions and consequences through an activity that discusses different cooking methods. 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 Technology & Society task series from 2004 by NEMP. |
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Counting Counters The Counting Counters task allows students to demonstrate their ability to construct a table. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a bag of counters in various colors and sizes. 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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Country Facts The Country Facts task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a Venn diagram. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a diagram and a table in a work book. This task is a part of the Interpretations of 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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Crane In the Crane task, students will look and a model and explain how it works. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a board with cogs, handles, and drum for string with hook, weight to be lifted on hook. This task is a part of the Knowledge and Understanding from 1996 by NEMP. |
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Crunchie Survey The Crunchie Survey task allows students to demonstrate their ability to fill out a form. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a Crunchie bar and a recording book. This task is a part of the Functional Writing 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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Cut Cube The Cut Cube task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of spatial relationships Students will be given a red cube that has been marked to be cut into smaller cubes. They will imagine that it is has been cut through along these markings into smaller cubes and will answer several questions about the smaller cubes. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a cube (marked to be cut into twenty-seven smaller cubes and painted red) and a recording book. This task is a part of the Geometry 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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Cut It Out In the Cut It Out task, students will cut diamonds out of papers that have been folded various times. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are scissors, colored paper, and a glue stick. This task is a part of the Geometry task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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