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School Lunches In the School Lunches task, students will plan lunches for days where that are and aren't physically active. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are an ideas answer sheet, two menu sheets, a set of twenty-four food labels, and a red pen. This task is a part of the Personal Health and Physical Development task series from 1998 by NEMP. |
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School Lunches The School Lunches task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of nutrition. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a menu and a recording book. This task is a part of the Personal Health and Physical Development 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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School Notices The School Notices task allows students to demonstrate their ability to recall and retell messages. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are an audio recording and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Listening 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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School Picnic The School Picnic task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret an extended weather forecast chart. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is an extended weather forecast chart. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps 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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School Shop The School Shop task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a table. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is a table in a work book. This task is a part of the Interpretations of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2007 by NEMP. |
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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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School Uniform Exchange In the School Uniform Exchange, students will talk about their school uniform tokens, histories, inner cultures, and exchange school activities. This task allows for cultural exchange and communication among students from all over the world. It will help students realize the importance of their value and the spirit of their school, country, and share with others their inner exploration. This task includes several possible classroom activities. |
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Schooling Then and Now In this task, students will study primary documents in order to help them compare and contrast 19th century schooling to modern day. 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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Security Camera In this task, students must decide on the most optimum location in a store to put a security camera. This task includes: |
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