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Tree Troubles The Tree Troubles task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of value positions. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are an instruction card and an opinion card. This task is a part of the Social Organization 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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Triangular Frameworks In this tasks, students will use multiple mathematical methods to explore how many triangles can be made with a set of predetermined side lengths. This task includes: |
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Triathlon The Triathlon task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a table. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a picture from a Weetbix packet. 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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Triceratops Pencil Drawing The Triceratops Pencil Drawing task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use drawing processes to describe the main features and form of a displayed object. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a model triceratops, a block, a pencil, paper, and a drawing board. This task should be completed in thirty minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Trigonometric Functions In this task, students will answer three short questions involving sin, cos, and tan. This task includes: |
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Tripping Around The Tripping Around task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a map showing driving distances between towns and cities. 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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Truck Track The Truck Track task allows students to plan, carry out and report results for an experiment involving a toy truck launched down a ramp with varying slope. Students will then extrapolate and interpret their results. Students will complete this task working in teams. Resources required for this task include a toy truck, a track, a cloth, five corks (one hidden), one meter folding ruler, and an instruction card. This task is a part of the Physical World 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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True Media Message In True Media Message students will identify false messages in advertisements and explain how they negatively affect a person's social, emotional or physical well-being. This task includes:
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Truth in Advertising In this task, students will plan a mathematically correct commercial for a phone service provider. This task includes: |
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Try and Catch the Wind In this task, students will design a new and more efficient turbine energy system that will reduce the environmental footprint placed by modern wind farms. This task includes: |
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