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Garden Creatures The Garden Creatures task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete a bar graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are pictures, an incomplete graph, and a text. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Going to the Dentist The Going to the Dentist task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a bar graph. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a bar graph. 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. |
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Golf Balls The Golf Balls task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete a pictograph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are an incomplete graph and a text. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Household Spending The Household Spending task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret two graphs. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is a chart with a pie graph. 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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