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Identity The Identity task allows students to demonstrate their ideas and understandings about what is special to Mäori culture. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator or in stations. The resource required for this task is a photograph. This task is a part of the Identity and Heritage task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Impacts on Soldiers and Civilians In this task, students will explore the War of 1812 from various viewpoints to better understand how soldier's lives were effected. This task includes: |
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In the News (Y4) The In the News (Y4) task allows students to demonstrate their ability to think critically about news items and ask questions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a video and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Continuity and Change task series from 2009 by NEMP. |
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International Intercultural Mural Exchange In this task, students will interact with an international partner school through online forums in order to create a mural. This task includes: |
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International Intercultural Mural Exchange (IIME) In the International Intercultural Mural Exchange (IIME) task, students of two schools of distant countries learn interactively by using ICT and create one big mural by drawing halves of a canvas to express their collaborative learning in a visual way. This task includes several possible classroom activities. |
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Kaiwakamoana The Kaiwakamoana task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of place names. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an answer book. This task is a part of the Place and Environment 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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Kindred (Family History) Project In this task, students will conduct interviews of their family and community members about their lives during world events in order to understand how their family's lives were affected. This task includes: |
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Kindred (Family History) Project In the Kindred (Family History) Project task, students will research events in the lives of members of their family or local community to find the impact of world or local history. They will be asked to interview member of their immediate family (mother, father, brothers, sisters), extended family (grandparents, uncles, aunts), neighbours or friends in the local community. They will ask them about experiences in their life that have been affected by the events of world or local history. Events may include war, natural disasters, migration, important discoveries, monuments, famous places and so on. Students will focus on the impact for the family. |
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Knowing New Zealand The Knowing New Zealand task allows students to demonstrate their factual knowledge about New Zealand. Students will complete this task working independently. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Place and Environment 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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Laws of Life: Virtues Project In this task, students will write an essay about what they value most in life. By submitting their essays in an online forum, students will be able to react to one another's essays online. This task includes: |
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