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Fire Safety Quiz The Fire Safety Quiz task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify appropriate questions for a purpose. Students will complete this task working in stations. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Asking Appropriate Questions task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Fishy Calendar The Fishy Calendar task allows students to demonstrate their ability to find information in a non-fiction text. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a book and a calendar page. This task is a part of the Finding and Gathering Information task series from 2009. 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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Funny Taste The Funny Taste task allows students to demonstrate their ability to select people to help and develop questions to ask. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are twelve small pictures of people and four answer sheets. This task is a part of the Clarifying Information Needs task series from 2001 by NEMP. |
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Garden Patch The Garden Patch task allows students to demonstrate their ability to analyze information, make a selection, and justify their selection. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are five flower facts cards. This task is a part of the Finding and Using Information from Non-Book Resources task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Get Firewise The Get Firewise task allows students to demonstrate their ability to find information on a website. 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 Finding and Gathering Information task series from 2009. 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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Goldfish Memory The Goldfish Memory task allows students to demonstrate their ability to evaluate and compare websites. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a list of sites and three articles. This task is a part of the Thinking About and Using Information task series from 2009 by NEMP. |
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Hens The Hens task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify information needs for a purpose. Students will complete this task working independently. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Clarifying Information Needs task series from 2005 by NEMP. |
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Hot Air Balloon The Hot Air Balloon task allows students to demonstrate their ability to prepare a structures summary. Students will complete this task working in groups. The resources required for this task are two “Hot Air” articles, four highlighters, two strips of blank stickers, an instruction card, an answer sheet, and scissors. This task is a part of the Analyzing and Using Information task series from 2005. 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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Hot Chips The Hot Chips task allows students to demonstrate their ability to choose arguments for a purpose. 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 Analyzing and Using Information task series from 2005. 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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Kea Talk The Kea Talk task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify information needs for a talk. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Clarifying Information Needs task series from 2009. 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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