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One Day in the Life In the One Day in the Life task, students will write about, photograph, and discuss their daily lives. Students will exchange messages and images describing days in their lives with students around the world, and then make cross-cultural comparisons. Students may document aspects of a typical day (like visiting the market or going to school) or they may document special days (like vacations, birthdays, celebrations, or holidays.) |
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Organic Waste The Organic Waste task allows students to demonstrate their ability to evaluate consequences and generating solutions through an activity discussing different ways to dispose of waste. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are two pictures. This task is a part of the Technology & Society task series from 2004 by NEMP. |
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Pack it up In the Pack it up task. students will select the most suitable material to package items before they are packed. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are five pictures of objects to be packed, five labelled packaging materials (bubble wrap, shredded paper, corrugated cardboard, expanded polystyrene foam, and colored tissue paper). This task is a part of the Technological Knowledge & Understanding task series from 2004 by NEMP. |
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Peg Basket The Peg Basket task allows students to demonstrate their ability to explain design features of a plastic peg basket. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a plan, a peg basket kitset, and pegs This task is a part of the Technological Knowledge & Understanding task series from 2000 by NEMP. |
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Pet House The Pet House task allows students to demonstrate their ability to evaluate a pet house design and designing an improved model. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a video recording on a laptop computer and a paper to record design. This task is a part of the Technological Capabilities task series from 2000. 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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Pet Mouse The Pet Mouse task allows students to demonstrate their ability to generate possible design solutions. Students will design a "mouse catcher" to catch a pet mouse that has escaped. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a toy mouse, an instruction card, a ruler, an eraser, and an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Technological Capabilities task series from 2004. 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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Photo Stand The Photo Stand task allows students to demonstrate their ability to follow detailed instructions to make a picture stand. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are pieces of a card, masking tape, a ruler, four paper clips, a colored card, a plan, a photo, scissors, and an instruction card. This task is a part of the Technological Capabilities task series from 2000 by NEMP. |
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Pies The Pies task allows students to demonstrate their ability to generate possible solutions and related strategies. Students will discuss the design, mass production, and marketing elements of inventing a new kind of pie. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are seven blank stickers. This task is a part of the Technological Capabilities task series from 2004. 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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Pizza Survey The Pizza Survey task allows students to demonstrate their ability to generate possible solutions and related strategies and to select, develop, or adapt solutions through an activity that involves creating a survey about pizza. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are four individual answer sheets, and a team answer sheet. This task is a part of the Technology & Society 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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Planning a Class Event In the Planning a Class Event task, students will be asked to plan a lunch for sixty people. They will be given a prompt sheet listing everything they will need to do and think about. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are a prompt sheet, A3 answer sheet, and marker pens. This task is a part of the Design from 1996 by NEMP. |
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