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Zoo Trip The Zoo Trip task allows students to demonstrate their ability to find information on a website. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a computer program, a laptop computer, and an answer booklet. 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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Zzz The Zzz task allows students to demonstrate their ability to construct a graph. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a bar graph in a recording book and a ruler. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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