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To Smoke or Not to Smoke The To Smoke or Not to Smoke task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of peer pressure. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a picture. This task is a part of the Relationships with Other People task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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Tobacco Times In Tobacco Times students will identify short-term effects of smoking and smokeless tobacco, determine smoking myths from smoking facts, and identify issues relating to peer pressure. This task includes:
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Touring the Systems In Touring the Systems students will compare components of circulatory, respiratory, digestive, nervous, muscular, skeletal, reproductive and/or endocrine systems to everyday objects. This task includes:
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True Media Message In True Media Message students will identify false messages in advertisements and explain how they negatively affect a person's social, emotional or physical well-being. This task includes:
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Vertical Jump The Vertical Jump task allows students to demonstrate their jumping skills. Students will complete this task working in open space. The resources required for this task are four bibs. This task is a part of the Movement Concepts and Motor Skills task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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Welcome to Our School In Welcome to Our School students will identify forms of harassment and describe strategies for dealing with each in addition to sources of help; describe disease prevention strategies related to spread of communicable diseases and how they would be practiced; describe health and fitness goals and how they might help keep students physically fit. This task includes:
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What Do You Think? The What Do You Think? task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of relationships and bullying. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are three pictures and a recording book. This task is a part of the Relationships with Other People task series from 2006. 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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Whose Friend? The Whose Friend? task allows students to demonstrate their understanding friendship and how to deal with problems. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is an illustration in a task book. This task is a part of the Relationships with Other People task series from 2002. 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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Why Play? The Why Play? task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of staying healthy. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a picture montage. This task is a part of the Personal Health and Physical Development task series from 2006. 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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Win Win In the Win Win task, students will watch a video and discuss what people would need to do to be really good at an activity or sport. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a video. This task is a part of the Personal Health and Physical Development task series from 1998 by NEMP. |
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