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Supa Heroes The Supa Heroes task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify and interpret particular features depicted in painting. 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 Responding to Art 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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Super Commercials! In this task, students will channel the Super Bowl in creating, directing, and acting in their own persuasive commercial. This task includes: |
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Super Frog Beepo The Super Frog Beepo task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete a line graph. 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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Super Sale The Super Sale task allows students to demonstrate their ability to calculate discounts. Students will calculate the amount of savings and the new price of sale objects. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Measurements 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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Superhero in the Making In this task, students will develop superhero characters based off of physics concepts and create comic/anime books based on their characters. This task includes: |
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Supermarket Shopping The Supermarket Shopping task allows students to demonstrate their ability to add costs and calculate change. Students will calculate the cost of the items they need to purchase and determine the amount of change they will be given back. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a picture of a supermarket brochure and a calculator. This task is a part of the Measurement task series from 2001. 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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Superstition Trading Cars In this task, students will discuss superstitions and create "playing cards" in photoshop depicting their newly invented superstitions. This task includes: |
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Surface Ozone The Surface Ozone task is part of the Atmosphere Unit from Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE). In this task, students will expose a chemically sensitive strip to the air for an hour and determine the amount of ozone present using an ozone strip reader. This task includes:
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Surface Temperature The Surface Temperature task is part of the Atmosphere Unit from Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE). In this task, students will use an infrared thermometer (IRT) to measure the temperature of Earth's surface. This task includes:
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Survival In this task, students will decide which material to use for a jacket that will be best suited for a cold and windy climate. This task includes: |
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