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Wearable Arts The Wearable Arts task allows students to demonstrate their ability to form and explain a personal response to artists’ works and consider artists’ intentions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a video on a laptop computer and two pictures. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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Weather Forecast The Weather Forecast task allows students to demonstrate their inferential listening skills. 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 2002 by NEMP. |
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Weather Map The Weather Map task allows students to understand weather map symbols. The will look at two weather maps and answer four questions about the weather and map symbols. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a picture of a boat and two weather maps. This task is a part of the Planet Earth and Beyond task series from 2007. 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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Weekend Trip The Weekend Trip task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a traveling time and distance table. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a South Island traveling time and distance table. 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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Weet-Bix Card The Weet-Bix Card task allows students to demonstrate their ability to think critically about the intentions of visually messages using a Weet-Bix advertisement. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a Weet-Bix card. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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Weet-bix Breakfast The Weet-bix Breakfast task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a nutrition table. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a color reproduction of the end panel of a cereal packet with a nutrition table. This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Weigh-Up The Weigh-Up task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use a balance scale. Students will weigh and then rank boxes of pebbles from lightest to heaviest. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are four boxes of pebbles (different weight but same size), balance scales, and a mat. This task is a part of the Number task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Wet-Dry Bulb Hygrometers In this task, students will assemple a hygrometer and use other instruments to take measurements and calculate differences and averages. This task includes: |
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Whakairo Rakau The Whakairo Rakau task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify and discuss the special features and symbolism of traditional Mäori carvings. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are pictures. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Wharenui The Wharenui task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of cultural heritage. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a picture. This task is a part of the Identity, Culture, Heritage task series from 2009. 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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