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Santa Gets Ready The Santa Gets Ready task allows students to demonstrate their ability to order pictures to tell a story. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are eight picture cards. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2002. 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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School Camp Activities The School Camp Activities task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a table. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is an activities chart. 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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School Days The School Days task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of differences between the present and the past. 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 Continuity and Change 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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School Garden The School Garden task allows students to investigate the requirements for a successful garden. Students will look at a picture of a school garden and answer six follow up questions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a picture of a school garden. The School Garden task is a part of the Living World task series by NEMP in 2007. |
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School Lunches The School Lunches task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of nutrition. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a menu and 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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School Notices The School Notices task allows students to demonstrate their ability to recall and retell messages. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are an audio recording and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Listening 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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School Shop The School Shop task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a table. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is a table in a work book. This task is a part of the Interpretations of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2007 by NEMP. |
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School Sports The School Sports task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete a bar graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a partially completed graph and a text. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Scooter The Scooter task allows students to investigate motion and the resistance to motion. Students will watch a short video of a person riding a scooter on different surfaces and answer five questions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a video recording and a device to play it on. This task is a part of the Physical World task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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Seed to Pine The Seed to Pine task allows students to account for the growth of a pine tree of immense size and weight from a small seed. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a picture of a pine tree, a pine tree seed, and a pine cone. This task is a part of the Living 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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