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Art in Social Contexts The Art in Social Contexts task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge, understandings, and ideas about art used in social contexts. 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 1995 by NEMP. |
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Atlas(Y4) The Atlas(Y4) task allows students to demonstrate their understanding and ability to use an atlas. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a book, a recording book, maps, and a name card. This task is a part of the Finding and Gathering Information task series from 2005 by NEMP. |
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Auckland Zoo The Auckland Zoo task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a map of a zoo. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a map, a red pen, and a blue pen. This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps 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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Baby Giraffe The Baby Giraffe task allows students to demonstrate their ability to write a short news report to go with a photo. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is a video. This task is a part of the Functional Writing task series from 1998 by NEMP. |
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Bag of Beans The Bag of Beans task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of probability using colored beans. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are bags of beans (eight blue, eight, green, and eight orange) and a recording book. This task is a part of the Algebra and Statistics 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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Bags The Bags task allows students to demonstrate their ability to evaluate decisions, strategies, outcomes, and consequences. Students will look at a pictures showing four different types of school bags. They will then choose which one is best for carrying all their school things, describe their reasons, and describe why the other bags were not good choices for them. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are four pictures. This task is a part of the Technological Knowledge & Understanding 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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Balance The Balance task allows students to demonstrate their personal movement skills, their physical co-ordination, and their ability to manipulate equipment. Students will complete this task in open space. The resources required for this task are a balance rail (90 cm long, 4 cm wide), a large ball, and a bean bag. This task is a part of the Movement Skills task series from 1998. |
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Balancing Balloons The Balancing Balloons task allows students to understanding that air has mass, takes up space, and is more dense when compressed. Students will watch a video and answer seven questions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a video showing steps of the experiment. This task is a part of the Material World task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Ball Bounce The Ball Bounce task allows students to demonstrate their large ball skills. Students will complete this task working in open space. The resources required for this task are a large ball and four bibs. This task is a part of the Movement Concepts and Motor Skills task series from 2002. 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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Ball Strike The Ball Strike task allows students to demonstrate their personal movement skills, their physical co-ordination, and their ability to manipulate equipment. Students will complete this task in open space. The resources required for this task are three skittles, a placement mat, three small rubber balls, and an ice hockey stick. This task is a part of the Movement Skills task series from 1998. |
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