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Throw and Catch The Throw and Catch task allows students to demonstrate their personal movement skills, their physical co-ordination, and their ability to manipulate equipment. Students will complete this task in open space. The resources required for this task are a large ball, a timer, a small ball, and a line to place on a wall. This task is a part of the Movement Skills task series from 1998. |
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Throwing Two Cents into the Local Political Area In this task, students will become involved in their local democracy. This task includes: |
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Ti Rakau The Ti Rakau task allows students to demonstrate their accurate rhythmic movement. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are a video recording on laptop computer, four sets of räkau, and four bibs. This task is a part of the Movement Concepts and Motor Skills task series from 2002. 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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Tick Tick The Tick Tick task allows students to demonstrate their ability to compare written and visual versions of text. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a video recording and a laptop. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2006 by NEMP. |
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Tides The Tides task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a table and a graph. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a tide chart with a 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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Tiger Woods The Tiger Woods task allows students to demonstrate their ability to read body language. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are five thought bubbles and four photos of Tiger Woods. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2006. 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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Tim's Budget The Tim's Budget task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a pie graph. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a graph. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1999. 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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Timber Factory The TImber Factory task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of value positions through an activity focusing on industry and the environment. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are two pictures This task is a part of the Technology & Society task series from 2000 by NEMP. |
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Timber: History of BC's Logging Industry In this task, students will use pictures and timelines to determine changes in the logging industry throughout the last couple centuries. This task includes: |
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Time The Time task allows students to investigate planetary motion and time. Students will answer three questions about the amount of time, in terms of hour, day, week, month, and year, that it takes the moon, Earth, and sun to either orbit or rotate. Students will complete this task working in stations. This task is a part of the Planet Earth and Beyond 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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