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Knowledge Tasks The Knowledge Tasks task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of a variety of topics through seven questions. Students will complete this task working in stations. No resources are required for this task. This task is a part of the Material World task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Knowledge Tasks The Knowledge Tasks task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of a variety of topics through six questions. Students will complete this task working in stations. No resources are required for this task. This task is a part of the Planet Earth and Beyond task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Knowledge Tasks The Knowledge Tasks task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of various topics through three multiple choice questions. Students will complete this task working in stations. No resources are required for this task. This task is a part of the Physical World task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Knowledge Tasks In the Knowledge Tasks task, students will answer ten multiple choice questions Students will complete this task working in stations. No resources are required for this task. 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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Landforms The Landforms task allows students to demonstrate their knowledges of what has formed land changes over time. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include three pictures of various land forms. This task is a part of the Planet Earth and Beyond task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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Landshape The Landshape task allows students to observe changes that happen to land over short and long periods of time through pictures and cartoons. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include photographs (an Abbotsford landslip showing wrecked houses and a coastline showing erosion), cartoons (Bogor and Footrot Flats), an OHP mylar sheet, a red pencil, and a pencil. This task is a part of the Planet Earth and Beyond task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Life Cycles The Life Cycles task allows students to demonstrate what they know about life cycles and has students arrange pictures to show a butterfly's life cycle. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task are six laminated arrows and four photographs of the stages in the butterfly life cycle (caterpillar, pupa, butterfly, eggs). 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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Magnetic Fillings The Magnetic Fillings task allows students to investigate magnetism by moving a magnet around a box of iron filings. Students will answer four follow up questions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a perspex box filled with iron fillings and a bar magnet. This task is a part of the Physical World 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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Mammals or Fish? The Mammals or Fish? task allows students to make scientific classifications. In the computer program, students will be presented with several characteristics of mammals and fish. Students will drag the characteristics describing mammals to the mammal side of the screen, and those describing fish to the fish side of the screen. Students will complete this task working in stations. Resources required for this task include a computer program on a laptop computer. The Mammals or Fish? task is a part of the Living World 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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Marbles in Water The Marbles in Water task allows students to account for the rise in water level in a container when an object or objects are added, in terms of water being displaced. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a 100ml jug, water, one small marble, and two large marbles. This task is a part of the Physical World task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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