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Smiling World The Smiling World task is a global collaboration to promote happiness throughout the world by bringing international smiles to students. Students will create posters and photos promoting smiles, handmade toys with smiles, murals and poetry to bridge the cultural gaps through smiles. There will be an international exhibition that includes all the photos and posters and will be made public with the help of Mass Media and Internet resources. |
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Special Place The Special Place task is a project promoting intercultural understanding and contributing to a better world to live in and students are invited to share local places that are precious to them in any digital forms. Students will select one local spot that gives them or their community special feelings and write a story about the unusual meanings of the places. They will use short stories with videos, ppt slides, digital photos or drawing to show us what theirr special place looks like. They may select any writing genre (creative, informative, humorous, etc.) or write a poem to describe their special place, and share what is special about it for them. |
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Statues and Characters The Statues and Characters unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 3 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources. Unit description from source: In Statues and characters students focus on responding to stimulus material, working in personal space and with a partner, using drama skills to devise a character and working in a small group to create short narrative works. |
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Supa Heroes The Supa Heroes task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify and interpret particular features depicted in painting. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a picture. This task is a part of the Responding to Art 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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Taisho Koto In the Taisho Koto task, students will explore the harmonies from Taisho Koto, a traditional Japanese instrument. They will learn about musical traditions and gain an appreciation of diverse musical traditions. |
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Talking Kites Around the World In the Talking Kites Around the World task, students will be learning about children' rights, learning about Korczak as a writer, and learning about Korczak's philosophy. They will make and fly a kite with their thoughts, fears, dreams, and/or hopes on them. The main outcome is the enhancement of important values, such as tolerance, acceptance of the "other", co-existence, listening, choosing dialog over force, universal solidarity etc. |
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Teddy The Teddy task allows students to demonstrate their ability to observe and use a drawing processes to describe the main features and form of a displayed object. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a teddy bear, a cork base, a pencil, a cloth, paper, and a drawing base board. This task is to be completed in ten minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Through My Eyes: Photography and Literacy In this task, students will engage in a long term visual project with multiple components to be presented to family and friends at the end of the year. This task includes: |
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Triceratops Pencil Drawing The Triceratops Pencil Drawing task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use drawing processes to describe the main features and form of a displayed object. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a model triceratops, a block, a pencil, paper, and a drawing board. This task should be completed in thirty minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Two Paintings (1999) The Two Paintings (1999) task allows students to demonstrate their ability to describe and interpret imagery and art making information in observed pictures, and express a personal response. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are photographs. This task is a part of the Responding to Art 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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