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A Midsummer Nights Dream In this task, students will work on their oratory and presentation skills by directing and performing a scene from Shakespear's A Midsumemr Nights Dream. This task includes: |
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ANIA Children's Land Project / Tierra de Niños In the ANIA Children's Land Project / Tierra de Niños task, students will share their home and/or school garden experiences and learn about how the agricultural methods of the Incan people of Peru can guide them in developing their own sustainable gardening practices. This task includes four possible classroom activities. |
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Aboriginal Art In this task, students will create an animal self portrait after studying aboriginal art and styles. This task inlcludes: |
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Alternate Reality In this task, students will photoshop each others images into their partner schools in order to put themselves in one another's shoes and identify the difficulties they each face. This task includes: |
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Art Object A The Art Object A task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify the materials and equipment used for a piece of art and explain the processes 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 three pictures. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Art Objects The Art Objects task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify the materials and equipment used for a piece of art and explain the processes 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 three pictures. This task is a part of the Responding to Art 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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Art You Know The Art You Know task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify and explain a favorite work of art. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 2007 by NEMP. |
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Art in Social Contexts The Art in Social Contexts task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge, understandings, and ideas about art used in social contexts. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are photographs. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Beauty of the Beasts The Beauty of the Beasts task is a global project inviting students to capture the grandeur and magnificence of animals indigenous to their areas through original artwork and poetry. Artwork and poetry must be the student's original masterpiece... their own interpretation of the beauty and uniqueness of these marvelous creatures. All art mediums and poetry styles are acceptable. Students may participate in either art or poetry divisions, or are welcome to submit work in both. All languages welcome. Please submit English or Spanish translations if possible. |
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Beauty of the Beasts In this task, students around the world will create original artwork and poetry about indigenous animals in their area. This task includes: |
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