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Classification of Materials This task focuses on Understanding the Scientific Inquiry. Students must use a two-way classification system to organize people and objects. This task includes: |
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Classroom Makeover In this task, students will work in groups to gather the necessary information to help their teacher enter a classroom re-design contest. This task includes: |
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Concession Creation In this task, students will research the food and drink that will make the most profit when sold at a dance concession stand. This task includes: |
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Connecting Math to Our Lives In this task, students will explore how math is being used in their community and shed light on promoting equity. This task includes: |
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Consecutive Numbers The Consecutive Numbers task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of patterns, relationships, and generalizations. Students will also show their ability to verify and prove. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a card, calculator, and a recording booklet. This task is a part of the Number & Algebra 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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Cooking Up a Mystery In Cooking Up a Mystery students will use evidence from the lab and the Internet to identify a criminal suspect in a cooking contest and make safety improvements. This task includes:
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Counting Trees In this task, students must develop and explain a method for counting the amount of trees in a diagram. This task includes: |
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Creeping This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Structure of the Earth Systems. Students must understand a model depicting "soil creep" in order to measure and graph their calculations. This task includes: |
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Crustal Sinking This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the knowledge of the Stucture of the Eath System. Students must examine the relationship between Earth's Crust and the mantle by conducting an experiment in which they measure the rate at which a test tube sinks into "goo". This task includes: |
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Cut Cube The Cut Cube task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of spatial relationships Students will be given a red cube that has been marked to be cut into smaller cubes. They will imagine that it is has been cut through along these markings into smaller cubes and will answer several questions about the smaller cubes. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a cube (marked to be cut into twenty-seven smaller cubes and painted red) and a recording book. This task is a part of the Geometry task series from 2001. 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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