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Through My Eyes: Photography and Literacy In this task, students will engage in a long term visual project with multiple components to be presented to family and friends at the end of the year. This task includes: |
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Time The Time task allows students to investigate planetary motion and time. Students will answer three questions about the amount of time, in terms of hour, day, week, month, and year, that it takes the moon, Earth, and sun to either orbit or rotate. Students will complete this task working in stations. 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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Torches The Torches task allows students to investigate electricity and the arrangement of batteries. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a flashlight with bulb fitted and two batteries outside torch. 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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Toy Story In this task, students will roleplay as engineers, advertising executives, and authors at a small toy campany. After researching the toy market, students will conduct field studies to help them in creating and marketing a new line of toys. This project will culminate in an exhibition presentation in which the the 8th grade classrooms are converted into toy factories. This task includes: |
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Traveling Trucks The Traveling Trucks task allows students to sort magnetic and non-magnetic objects based on prior experience and practical investigation and try to generalize their understanding. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a toy truck, a magnet, and a bag of objects. This task is a part of the Physical World task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Tree Study This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on Tools, Trends, and Bias. Students must measure leaves and record and analyze their data in order to formulate questions that could aid in understanding the trends, patterns, and inaccuracies in their measurements. This task includes: |
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Truck Track The Truck Track task allows students to plan, carry out and report results for an experiment involving a toy truck launched down a ramp with varying slope. Students will then extrapolate and interpret their results. Students will complete this task working in teams. Resources required for this task include a toy truck, a track, a cloth, five corks (one hidden), one meter folding ruler, and an instruction card. This task is a part of the Physical World 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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Underground The Underground task allows students to demonstrate knowledge of properties of top soil and clay Students will complete this task working in stations. Resources required for this task include picture of soil and clay and nine stickers listing soil properties. This task is a part of the Planet Earth and Beyond task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Unit from Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) aids students The Atmosphere Unit from Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) aids students in the understanding of important scientific concepts, the understanding of data and data collection methodologies. The investigation appendix contains data sheets for all atmosphere and climate protocols, cloud and contrail images and descriptions and a glossary of terms. They will learn about weather, climate, land cover, phenology, ecology, biology, hydrology and soil. This unit includes:
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Unknown Cleanup in Aisle 5 In this task, students will work together to identify and classify unknown substances in order to come up with a way to transport them. This task includes: |
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