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Vege Peelings The Vege Peelings task allows students to evaluate and justify different approaches to organic waste disposal. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a video showing four ways to dispose of vegetable peelings and four photos. This task is a part of the Planet Earth and Beyond task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Wasps The Wasp task gives students practice asking scientific questions. Students will watch a video on wasps and then think about good questions they could ask a scientist to investigate. This task includes two follow up questions. Resources required for this task include a video on wasps and a device to watch it on. The Wasp task is a part of the Living World task series by NEMP in 2007. |
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Water Cycle The Water Cycle task allows students to describe the water cycle. Students will be given a diagram of the water cycle and asked to explain what is happening in each stage of the cycle. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a diagram of the water cycle. This task is a part of the Material World task series from 2007. |
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Water Weights The Water Weights task allows students to investigate buoyancy displacement . Students will watch a short video, do an experiment comparing the weight of an object in and out of water, and answer six questions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a video recording on laptop computer, a mug of water, a weight, and a spring balance. This task is a part of the Physical 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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Way Out There The Way Out There task allows students to learn about the Earth, moon, and comets in the solar system. Students will look at a picture taken of Earth from outer space, a comet seen in the night sky, and the moon on different nights. They will answer a question about each picture. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include three pictures. This task is a part of the Planet Earth and Beyond World task series by NEMP from 2007. |
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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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What Eats What? In the What Eats What? task students will learn about the food web by working out what eats what in a cabbage garden. The students will think about what will happen if one of the predators is removed from the food web. Students will be presented with an activity chart and will complete this task working in teams. Resources required for this task are two laminated work sheet, blu-tack, an erasable felt pen, a laminated activity card, pictures of the cabbage community: cabbage, slater, praying mantis, caterpillar, spider, ladybird, snail, worm, cabbage moth, sparrow, thrush, aphid, fly, parasitic wasp. This task is a part of the Living World task series from 1995. 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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Whats the Difference The Whats the Difference task allows students to sort typical kitchen items into liquids and Solids and decide which of these substances can be made into solutions. Students will complete this task working in stations. Resources required for this task include five wine beakers, a jug of water, a spoon, spatulas, a clock, orange drink powder, vinegar, salt, cooking oil, rice, and a laminated chart. This task is a part of the Material World task series from 1995 by NEMP |
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Wheel Race The Wheel Race task allows students to co–operatively plan, carry out and report on an experiment involving the effects of mass and rotational inertia on the acceleration of a wheel. Students will complete this task working in teams. Resources required for this task include two wheel cases, eight washers, 2cm blutak, a test track, a cork, a red pen, a blue pen, a large piece of paper (for planning), a stop watch, and an instruction card. This task is a part of the Physical World task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Which Direction? The Which Direction? task allows students to explore magnetic north using a compass, a magnet, and a nail floating on a raft in water. Students will answer a series of seven questions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a magnet, a compass, a nail, a bowl of water, and a polystyrene raft. This task is a part of the Physical World task series from 2007. |
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