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Bird Battle The Bird Battle task allows students to demonstrate their ability to compose a picture by creating, selecting and assembling shapes, colors and textures in ways that give expressive impact. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task a video recording on a laptop computer, paper, scissors, glue sticks, and base sheets. This task should be completed in forty minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art 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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Bird Beaks The Bird Beaks task focuses on bird beak adaptations. In this task students will use a computer program to select which food items are appropriate for a bird based on its beak. Students will do this food selection for six different birds. Students will complete this task working in stations. Resources required for this task are a computer program and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Living World task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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Bird Mat The Bird Mat task allows students to demonstrate their ability to find information in a book. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a book and an answer sheet. This task is a part of the Analyzing and Using Information 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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Birds The Birds task allows students to recognize from prior knowledge a selection of birds, define the term "native bird," and identify those that fit in this category. Students will complete this task working in stations. Resources required for this task are eight pictures of birds. This task is a part of the Living World task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Birthday Echo The Birthday Echo task allows students to demonstrate their ability to sing. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are an audio track on a laptop computer and four song charts. 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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Biscuits The Biscuits task allows students to explore technological change and its impact. 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 Technology & Society 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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Blackbeard's Map The Blackbeard's Map task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a treasure map. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a map in a resource book. This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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Blackberry The Blackberry task focuses on the form and function of a blackberry. Students will look at a picture of a blackberry plant and answer five questions about the various parts of the plant. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task are a picture of a blackberry bush. This task is a part of the Living World task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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Blow it! The Blow It! task allows students to investigate how the length of musical instruments relates to its pitch. Students will look a picture of three instruments of different lengths and make a prediction about their pitch in relation to each other. Then they will experiment by blowing over the top of straws of different lengths. This task includes seven questions. Students will complete this task working in stations. Resources required for this task include a picture and three straws of different lengths. This task is a part of the Physical 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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Book Cover The Book Cover task allows students to demonstrate their ability to evaluate visual design features. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are two book covers. This task is a part of the Viewing 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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