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Book Returns The Book Returns task allows students to demonstrate their ability to understand library organization. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are eight book covers and a recording book. 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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Book Sort The Book Sort task allows students to demonstrate their ability to sort books by classification. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are eight book covers and a recording book. This task is a part of the Finding and Gathering 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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Bottle and Balloon The Bottle and Balloon task allows students to watch a video showing what happen to a limp balloon attached to the mouth of a bottle when the bottle is placed in hot water. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a video. This task is a part of the Material World task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Bottles The Bottles task allows students to demonstrate their ability to estimate, compare, and problem solve. Students will estimate how much water various bottles can hold and determine how they could measure an amount water using bottles that hold different amounts. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are four bottles, colored tape, two cards, and a layout page. This task is a part of the Number task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Bottom Balance The Bottom Balance task allows students to demonstrate their balancing skills. Students will complete this task working in open space. The resource required for this task is a mat. This task is a part of the Movement Concepts & Motor Skills task series from 2006 by NEMP. |
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Boxes in Boxes In the Boxes in Boxes task, students will determine how many small boxes of various items will fit in a bigger box. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are an open rectangular box, three boxes of raisins, two packets of Fruit Bursts, five Minties (cubes), a ruler, and a calculator. This task is a part of the Number task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Breakdancing The Breakdancing task allows students to demonstrate their ability to classify and organize ideas. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are ten stickers. This task is a part of the Analyzing and Using Information task series from 2005 by NEMP. |
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Breakfast Foods The Breakfast Foods task allows students to demonstrate their ability to critically evaluate advertisements. 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 Viewing task series from 2006 by NEMP. |
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Broken Ruler The Broken Ruler task allows students to demonstrate their ability to measure length. Students will measure objects using a piece of a ruler that does not start at zero. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a"broken” ruler, a 40cm length of ribbon, a piece of colored card, and a recording book. This task is a part of the Measurement task series from 2001 by NEMP. |
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Bubbles The Bubbles task allows students to generate and classify questions. While blowing bubbles in this task, students will discuss and record questions they have about the bubbles. They will then decided which questions they could answer with experiments and which they would need to ask a scientist. Students will complete this task in teams. Resources required for this task include a bubble mixture, straws, paper towels, two notepads, a cue card, four jars, red and blue stickers, and an answer sheet. 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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