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Jumping Frogs The Jumping Frogs task allows students to demonstrate their ability to listen to and distinguish music. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a computer program and a laptop computer, five cards, and an answer sheet. This task is a part of the Knowing and Responding: Interpreting, Moving, Analyzing, Appreciating task series from 2008. 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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Let Me Tell You A Story In this task, students will take place in an interdisciplinary task that culminates in a presentation of an original art piece, original songs, and performances. This task includes: |
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Listen to the Rhythms The Listen to the Rhythms task allows students to demonstrate their ability to listen to and distinguish rhythmic patterns. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a computer program and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Knowing and Responding: Interpreting, Moving, Analyzing, Appreciating task series from 2008. 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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Melodic Direction (1996) The Melodic Direction (1996) task allows students to demonstrate their ability to listen to and distinguish melodies. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are audio tracks on a laptop computer and an answer sheet. This task is a part of the Knowing and Responding: Interpreting, Moving, Analyzing, Appreciating task series from 2008. 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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Movie Music The Movie Music task allows students to demonstrate their ability to understand purpose and function of music. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are audio tracks on a laptop computer and eight cards. This task is a part of the Knowing and Responding: Interpreting, Moving, Analyzing, Appreciating task series from 2008. 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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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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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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Musical Conversations in Concert In this task, students will create their own musical "conversation" and perform it for the class. This task includes: |
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Operating a Musical on a Shoestring Budget In this task, students will collaborate on finding sources to acquire musical equipment and props for little to no money. This task includes: |
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Play It Again The Play It Again task allows students to demonstrate their ability to echo pitch. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are an audio tracks on laptop computer, chime bars C, D, E, F, G, and a beater. This task is a part of the Knowing and Making: Creating, Playing Singing task series from 2008. 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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