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Jar Opener The Jar Opener task allows students to demonstrate their ability to investigate and evaluate design. Students will be given a jar and jar opener and asked to will answer questions about them. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a jar opener and a jar with a lid. This task is a part of the Technological Capabilities task series from 2004. 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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Jars and Marbles The Jars and Marbles task allows students to demonstrate their measurement sense and their ability to estimate measuring capacity. Students will be given a container of marbles and will estimate to where the marbles would fill other jars of varying shapes and sizes. Then they will estimate how many film canisters they would need to contain all the marbles. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a jar filled with marbles, a film canister, three jars, and an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Measurement 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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Jazzy Cats The Jazzy Cats task allows students to demonstrate their ability to play melodic parts. Students will complete this task working in groups. The resources required for this task are a video on a laptop computer, four beaters, four music cards, two chime bar sets, four team badges, and a Working Together team card. This task is a part of the Knowing and Making: Creating, Playing Singing 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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Jelly The Jelly task allows students to demonstrate their ability to measure and calculate lengths and volumes. Students will complete this task working in stations. Students will measure the dimensions of a jello box and calculate the volume. Then they will apply their findings to determine the dimensions and volume of a crate of ten jello boxes. The resources required for this task are a jello box, a ruler, a calculator, and an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Measurement 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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Jelly Beans The Jelly Beans task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete and label a bar graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a plastic bag containing colored jelly beans, an incomplete pie graph, and a text. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 |
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Jelly Crystals The Jelly Crystals task allows students to design a fair test experiment on the dissolving This task is a part of the Material World 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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Jenny's Letter The Jenny's Letter task allows students to demonstrate their ability to improve formal letter writing. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a Playground Trust letter, Jenny’s letter, and a check. This task is a part of the Functional Writing task series from 2006 by NEMP. |
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Jog, Bat, and Bounce The Jog, Bat, and Bounce 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 3.5m long rope ladder, a large ball, a small ball, and a small bat. This task is a part of the Movement Skills task series from 1998. |
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Jokes and Riddles The Jokes and Riddles task allows students to demonstrate their ability to appreciate and use humor in oral communication. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resource required for this task is a set of four joke sheets. This task is a part of the Oral Responses task series from 1996 by NEMP. |
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Jump, Jump! The Jump, Jump! task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of peer pressure. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a video recording and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Relationships with Other People task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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