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Bean Bag Toss The Bean Bag Toss 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 bean bags, a tray, and blu-tack. This task is a part of the Movement Skills task series from 1998. |
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Bean Estimates The Bean Estimates task allows students to demonstrate their ability to estimate by estimating how many beans will fit on three trays of different sizes. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are three trays (red, blue, and green), twenty beans, and a recording book. This task is a part of the Measurement 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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Beanie Bear's Window Cleaning Device The Beanie Bear's Window Cleaning Device unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 10 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources. Unit description from source: In Beanie Bear’s window cleaning device, students focus on designing and constructing a basic mechanism that can lower an object (Beanie Bear or other small toy) and stop at two positions. The assessment task requires them to develop a planned set of steps for making the lowering device, evaluate the device and explain any improvements they make. |
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Bear Box The Bear Box task allows students to demonstrate their ability to design and draw a 3D box that is suitable for a teddy bear. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a teddy bear, a pencil, a rubber, a 30 cm ruler, and an instruction card. This task is a part of the Technological Capabilities task series from 2000 by NEMP. |
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Bear Mixes In the Bear Mixes task, students will be told how many bears they have and information about the colors of the bears. They will use this information to determine how many of each color bears they have. This task involves addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, fractions, and percentages. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are twenty yellow bears and twenty blue bears. This task is a part of the Algebra, Statistics, and Logic task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Beauty of the Beasts In this task, students around the world will create original artwork and poetry about indigenous animals in their area. This task includes: |
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Beauty of the Beasts The Beauty of the Beasts task is a global project inviting students to capture the grandeur and magnificence of animals indigenous to their areas through original artwork and poetry. Artwork and poetry must be the student's original masterpiece... their own interpretation of the beauty and uniqueness of these marvelous creatures. All art mediums and poetry styles are acceptable. Students may participate in either art or poetry divisions, or are welcome to submit work in both. All languages welcome. Please submit English or Spanish translations if possible. |
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Bed Times The Bed Times task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a bar graph. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a red pen and a bar graph in a resource book. 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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Bedroom Plan The Bedroom Plan task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a bedroom plan. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a laminated plan. This task is a part of the Viewing 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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Bees The Bees task allows students to explore bees' adaptations for habitat. Students will examine two pictures of bees and answer five follow up questions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include two pictures of bees and a recording book. The Bees task is a part of the Living World task series by NEMP in 2007. |
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