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Lucky Dip Stall The Lucky Dip Stall task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of teamwork qualities and rules for working together. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are four individual answer sheets, a team answer sheet, and a highlighter. This task is a part of the Social Organization 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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Manda The Manda task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of the way people's activities are influenced by their environment. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are two pictures. This task is a part of the Resources and Economic Activities task series from 2005. 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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Marae The Marae task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of marae buildings and welcomes. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a video and two name cards. This task is a part of the Identity and Heritage task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Marae Meeting The Marae Meeting task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of marae buildings and welcomes. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are five stickers (Te Whare Kai, Te Whare Nui, Te Tangata Whenua, Te Kaikörero, Te Manuhiri). This task is a part of the Culture and Heritage task series from 2001 by NEMP. |
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Money Matters In the Money Matters task, students will l be able to get into conversation about money, learn some facts about history of money and about money in other countries, discuss students’ pocket money and proverbs about money, make media products about money. |
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Money Matters In this task, students will collaborate with participating classes in discussing their opinions of money in an online forum. This task includes: |
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Monuments and Memorials In this task, students will research and reflect on what has been memorialized from the War of 1812 and then design their own memorial based on events and people of historical significance. This task includes: |
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Music of the World In this task, students will collaborate in creating an original song using instruments from around the world. Each age group will have a specific task in creating the song as a whole student body. This task includes: |
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Music of the World In the Music of the World task, students will work together to create and perform an original song, using instruments from around the world. This task includes several possible classroom activities. |
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My Country In the My Country task, students will express themselves through essays, drawings, poetry, on different aspects of their country. Students throughout the world can participate in the project by writing, drawing or sending pictures about population, culture, surface, agriculture, industry, economy, and environment. |
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