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Telling the Time The Telling the Time task allows students to demonstrate their ability to recall information from a text and reading comprehension skills. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a story in four parts and four sets of questions. This task is a part of the Silent Reading task series from 1996 by NEMP. |
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Temperature School This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on Heat and Temperature. Students must measure, record, and graph temperatures from three water samples and then grasp the concepts of cooling and warming in order to relate to the outside world. This task includes: |
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Temperature and Enzymes In this task, students will experiment with mixing rennin and milk. This task includes: |
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Temple Geometry In this task, students will examine and solve geometrical puzzles. This task includes: |
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Ten Million Dollars The Ten Million Dollars task allows students to demonstrate their ability to calculate and problem solve. Students will have to determine how many $100 bills are in ten million dollars and how many $100 dollar bills fit in a wallet box, Then they will need to calculate how many boxes they would need for the ten million dollars. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are twenty $100 notes (play), a calculator, four rulers, a wallet box, one team answer sheet, and four individual answer sheets. This task is a part of the Measurements task series from 2005 by NEMP. |
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Tennis Court Oath This task assesses students' knowledge of the past—but rather than measure rote recall of decontextualized facts, this assessment requires students to make connections across time and construct an argument about how events are connected. Students with a strong sense of the past will explain that the representatives depicted signed the Tennis Court Oath, which rejected the doctrine of divine right and pronounced that political power came from the people and their representatives. A strong response to the second question may explain that the huge cost of the Seven Years’ War contributed to a financial crisis in France. This resulted in higher taxes and anger among the public, creating popular discontent. The Tennis Court Oath was a product of this discontent. Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment with source materials, as well as the Rubric containing benchmark descriptors. |
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Testing Foods In this task, students must explore the amounts of oil in various foods. This task includes: |
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Testing a New Drug In this task, students will design an experiment to test experimental drugs and write a report to send to an approval committee. This task includes: |
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Text Messages The Text Messages task allows students to demonstrate their ability to understand and use abbreviations effectively. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a picture. This task is a part of the Functional Writing task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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