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Postcard The Postcard task allows students to demonstrate their ability to write an informative postcard. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a postcard. This task is a part of the Functional Writing task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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Poster The Poster task allows students to demonstrate their ability to think critically about the intentions of visual messages. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a poster and three stickers. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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Posting Parcels The Posting Parcels task allows students to demonstrate their ability to measure weights and read a table. Students will weight packages and determine how much it would cost to send them to their destinations using a post table. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are three parcels, scales, a New Zealand Post table, and an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Measurement 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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Potter The Potter task allows students to demonstrate their ability to construct a set of questions that would allow them to obtain information from an artist about the artist's work. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a video recording, a laptop computer, a picture, and a recording book. This task is a part of the Responding to Art 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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Powder In this task, students will examine unidentified substances and propose uses for them. This task includes: |
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Powders The Powders task allows students to investigate properties of chemicals. Students will examine six powders and design a chart to show at least three properties of each powder. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a blue pen, a teaspoon of powders A, B, C, D, E, F (in sample cups labelled A, B, C, D, E, F;), an instruction card, a jug of water, a red pen, two pairs of tweezers, two hand lenses, a ruler, twelve popsicle sticks, six sample cups, two eye droppers, a team answer sheet, six teaspoons, and twelve sheets A5 black paper. This task is a part of the Material World 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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Powhiri The Powhiri task allows students to demonstrate their ability to describe cultural customs and traditions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a set of six pictures and a recording book. This task is a part of the Culture and Heritage task series from 2005. 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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Predator/Prey Relationship This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Populations of Ecosystems. Students must analyze given population data and write a paragraph demonstrating their underatandings, and then write a proposal to reduce one animal's population. This task includes: |
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President Grant and Horace Greeley This assessment gauges students’ ability to source, contextualize, and corroborate a document. Students must consider how the contextual information about John Defrees's pamphlet on Grant's presidency affects its reliability as historical evidence. Then, students must identify other information that would help them further evaluate the reliability of the pamphlet. Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment as well as the Rubric with benchmark descriptors. |
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Print Making Process The Print Making Process task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of and their ability to explain the processes and procedures of different print making techniques. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are an activity card of summarizing instructions and a set of randomly numbered photographs showing steps in four different print making processes. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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