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Calligraphic Arts In this task, students will learn about the art of Calligraphy and then write their own short piece in the style. Their work will be presented through multiple mediums and in online galleries. This task includes: |
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Calligraphic Arts The Calligraphic Arts task is designed to engage students to explore the art of Calligraphy, learn its history, and learn techniques. Students will select or create short text focusing peace, love, tolerance, friendship in the form of poems, slogans, phrase, words, select sayings from Sufis or scholars, and use different medium including software to produce calligraphic pieces and share their completed projects in the interactive forum and a web gallery. Likewise students will get an opportunity to appreciate and comment on the pieces Calligraphic art designed by peers from participating countries. |
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Cave Creature The Cave Creature task allows students to demonstrate their ability to produce an expressive colored drawing based on an imaginative idea, using skills of composition and media effects. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a video, oil pastels, crayons, paper, a cardboard under-surface, and a tray. This task is to be completed in twenty minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Choosing a Picture The Choosing a Picture task allows students to demonstrate their ability to work collaboratively to select a piece of art and justify their choice. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are photographic reproductions of paintings. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Ciencilandia In this task, students will participate in science activities in order to better understand the world around them. This task involves multilingual components. This task includes: |
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Clay Model The Clay Model task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use and control the medium of clay to create three-dimensional forms that interact expressively with each other. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are blocks of clay, a pointed dowel stick, a mat, a wooden spatula, and a base card. This task is to be completed in forty minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art 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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Clay Person The Clay Person task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use the medium of clay to create a three-dimensional form. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are four blocks of clay, four pointed dowel sticks, four desk covers, four white plastic bases, four ice block sticks, four wooden steps, four pieces of paper, four pencils, four cue cards, and four dampened sponges. This task is to be completed in forty minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art 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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Digital Citizenship In the Digital Citizenship task, students will learn about Digital Citizenship and develop responsible on line behaviors through focused awareness raising activities. The project aims at making students aware of their responsibility while working online. Students will understand the term ‘Digital Citizenship’ and what it means in their context. They will learn Digital etiquettes, make conscious efforts to practice them and spread them amongst their friends and family. They will become aware of e-safety by learning about common web threats such as computer viruses (spyware, malware, adware, phishing, & pharming) and web issues such as copy right laws, cyber bullying, and plagiarism. |
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Digital Citizenship In this task, students will explore the concept of Digital Citizenship and use activities to raise awareness on appropriate online behavior. This task includes: |
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Dog Walk The Dog Walk task allows students to demonstrate their ability to create and depict an expressive image appropriate to a defined context (dog walk) and perform a demonstrated printmaking process. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a video on laptop computer, brayer, a tube of purple ink, a desk cover, a sheet of newsprint paper, a blue greasy crayon, a pencil, a card plate, and an inking plate. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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