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Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Grass Graphs

The Grass Graphs task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret and complete a bar graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a ruler and a graph in a recording book.

This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps 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.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3

Green Park

The Green Park task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a map of a park. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a map.

This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps 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.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Growing Up

The Growing Up task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a bar graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a bar graph in a work book. 

This task is a part of the Interpretations of Graphs, Tables, and Maps 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.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Holiday Drive

The Holiday Drive task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a time and distance line graph. Students will complete this task working independently. There are no resource required for this task.

This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1999 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Houses

The Houses task allows students to demonstrate their ability to understand a house plan and relate it to the house's appearance. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a house plan and five pictures. 

This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1999 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3

Hungry Caterpillar

The Hungry Caterpillar task allows students to demonstrate their ability to create a graph with labels. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a labelled graph paper and text.

This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Ice Cream

The Ice Cream task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete a table and create a graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are an incomplete table, a text, and a space to draw a graph.

This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Jelly Beans

The Jelly Beans task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete and label a bar graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a plastic bag containing colored jelly beans, an incomplete pie graph, and a text. 

This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Kafte Bar

The Kafte Bar task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a nutrition table. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a text and a table.

This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Kelly Tarlton's

The Kelly Tarlton's task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a map. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are colored stickers and a map in a work book.

This task is a part of the Interpretations of Graphs, Tables, and Maps 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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