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Bean Estimates The Bean Estimates task allows students to demonstrate their ability to estimate by estimating how many beans will fit on three trays of different sizes. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are three trays (red, blue, and green), twenty beans, and a recording book. This task is a part of the Measurement 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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Bear Box The Bear Box task allows students to demonstrate their ability to design and draw a 3D box that is suitable for a teddy bear. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a teddy bear, a pencil, a rubber, a 30 cm ruler, and an instruction card. This task is a part of the Technological Capabilities task series from 2000 by NEMP. |
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Bear Mixes In the Bear Mixes task, students will be told how many bears they have and information about the colors of the bears. They will use this information to determine how many of each color bears they have. This task involves addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, fractions, and percentages. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are twenty yellow bears and twenty blue bears. This task is a part of the Algebra, Statistics, and Logic task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Bees The Bees task allows students to explore bees' adaptations for habitat. Students will examine two pictures of bees and answer five follow up questions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include two pictures of bees and a recording book. The Bees task is a part of the Living World task series by NEMP in 2007. |
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Being Healthy In the Being Healthy task, students will discuss what a person needs to be healthy. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Personal Health and Physical Development task series from 1998 by NEMP. |
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Being Healthy The Being Healthy task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of health. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a recording book. 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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Better Buy The Better Buy task allows students to demonstrate their under standing of cost per unit and identify the best value. Students will determine which box of pebbles is the best value based on cost and weight. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are100g, 50g, and 20g boxes of pebbles. This task is a part of the Measurement 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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Bike Accident The Bike Accident task allows students to demonstrate their ability to present oral interpretations and descriptions of observed events. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a video clip. This task is a part of the Oral Descriptions task series from 1996 by NEMP. |
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Bike for Sale The Bike for Sale task allows students to demonstrate their ability to write a short advertisement. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task a picture. This task is a part of the Functional Writing task series from 1998 by NEMP. |
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Bikes The Bikes task allows students to demonstrate their ability to investigate and evaluate design. Students will look at a picture of an old bike and answer questions about its design and purpose. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are two pictures. This task is a part of the Technological Knowledge & Understanding 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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