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School Sports The School Sports task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete a bar graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a partially completed graph and a text. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Schoolyard Habitat Project In this task, students work together to come up with a plan to implement that will create insect and animal habitats for the school. This task includes: |
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Scooter The Scooter task allows students to investigate motion and the resistance to motion. Students will watch a short video of a person riding a scooter on different surfaces and answer five questions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a video recording and a device to play it on. This task is a part of the Physical World task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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Seed to Pine The Seed to Pine task allows students to account for the growth of a pine tree of immense size and weight from a small seed. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a picture of a pine tree, a pine tree seed, and a pine cone. This task is a part of the Living World 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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Seedfolks In this task, students will work together to plant seeds of positive societal ideas around the school and write poems about how they will continue to grow together. This task includes: |
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Self-Worth The Self-Worth task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of negative and positive personal feelings. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a picture and answer book. This task is a part of the Personal Health and Physical Development 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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Selling Chocolate The Selling Chocolate task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete and label a pie chart. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are an unlabeled pie chart and a text. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Sentences The Sentences task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use punctuation and capital letters. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a recording book. This task is a part of the Writing Conventions task series from 2006. 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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Sesame Treat for Our Street In this task, students will explore how writing can have a positive influence by working alongside fellow students of all ages in creating a puppet show that will teach about cross-cultural acceptance. This task includes: |
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Shapes The Shapes task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of area. Students will look at six shapes and order the shapes from smallest to largest area. Students will complete this task working in stations. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Number task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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