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Kiwi Pencil Drawing The Kiwi Pencil Drawing task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use drawing processes to describe the main features and form of a displayed object. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a kiwi, four pencils, four pieces of paper, a bag of leaves, four tote trays, cardboard bases, four 3-point position bases. This task is to be completed in fifteen 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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Landscapes The Landscapes task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify similarities and differences in a range of styles of painting. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are set of twelve photographic reproductions of landscape paintings by six artists. This task should be completed in thirty minutes. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Link Task 1: Collage The Link Task 1: Collage task allows students to demonstrate their ability to compose a picture creating, selecting and assembling shapes, colors and textures in ways that give expressive impact. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a video, a set of six papers, scissors, a glue stick, and a base sheet. This task is to be completed in thirty minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 1999. This task is classified as a link task by NEMP. Link tasks are used to make comparisons of performance between assessments four years apart. |
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Link Task 2: Painting The Link Task 2: Painting task allows students to demonstrate their ability to create an expressive painting from an imaginative idea, showing a variety of shapes, detail, color mixing and spatial effects. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are paint brushes, chalk, paint, a palette, a mixing tray, water, a sponge, a video, and a video cue card. This task is to be completed in forty-five minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 1999 by. This task is classified as a link task by NEMP. Link tasks are used to make comparisons of performance between assessments four years apart. |
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Link Task 3 The Link Task 3 task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify the materials and equipment and explain the process used for making selected art objects. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are pictures. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1999. This task is classified as a link task by NEMP. Link tasks are used to make comparisons of performance between assessments four years apart. |
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Link Task 4 The Link Task 4 task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify and describe the features and meanings of sculptures. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are two pictures. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1999. This task is classified as a link task by NEMP. Link tasks are used to make comparisons of performance between assessments four years apart. |
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Meeting House The Meeting House task allows students to demonstrate their ability to name and explain the meaning or significance of structures in a traditional Mäori meeting house. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are four pictures. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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Music of the World In the Music of the World task, students will work together to create and perform an original song, using instruments from around the world. This task includes several possible classroom activities. |
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Music of the World In this task, students will collaborate in creating an original song using instruments from around the world. Each age group will have a specific task in creating the song as a whole student body. This task includes: |
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My Country In this task, students will express themselves through multiple forms to their global peers. They will learn to understand each others' lives in various countries. This task includes: |
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