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Walking the Halls In this task, students will interview people associated with the school to create a presentation that preserves the stories people have associated with the school. This task includes: |
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Wall Paint The Wall Paint task allows students to demonstrate their ability to measure area. Students will be told the amount of paint needed to paint a wall and will be asked to calculate the amount of paint needed to calculate a wall with doubled dimensions. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Measurement 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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Wall of Names The Wall of Names task is designed to support student self-expression using various artistic devices and to teach them to cherish intercultural exchanges. This task includes discussion, research, writing, and creating art. The task includes a description of a possible classroom activity. |
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Wallies The Wallies task allows students to demonstrate their ability to estimate by estimating the number of "Wallies" in a picture. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a picture of "Wallies" and a recording book. This task is a part of the Number task series from 2001 by NEMP. |
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War. What is it Good For? In this task, students pick a topic of interest and work in groups to create an article idea for TIME magazine. This task includes: |
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Warriors and Soldiers The Warriors and Soldiers task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify and describe the features and meanings of sculptures. 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 Responding to Art 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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Washington Crosses Delaware This task measures students’ ability to source a document. When historians interpret a document, they first look to find out who wrote it and when. This information presents important clues about whether the source provides reliable evidence about the past. This assessment gauges whether students understand an important aspect of sourcing: the time elapsed between when a document was produced, and the event that it depicts. Students who understand the importance of when a document was produced will see that the painting shown in this task is of little use to historians who wish to understand the Battle of Trenton, because it was produced 100 years after the event. The task includes a range of supplementary materials, all accessible and available for download with the creation of a free account through the site:
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Wasps The Wasp task gives students practice asking scientific questions. Students will watch a video on wasps and then think about good questions they could ask a scientist to investigate. This task includes two follow up questions. Resources required for this task include a video on wasps and a device to watch it on. The Wasp task is a part of the Living World task series by NEMP in 2007. |
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Watch Out! There's Going to Be Fireworks! In this task, students will be design their own fireworks show, calculating timing, safety, and height of burst. This task includes: |
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Water The Water task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use book covers to identify an appropriate book, find the appropriate page numbers using the indexes, and use the tables of content to identify which chapters to look in. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are book covers, tables of contents and indexes for three books, and a card listing questions. This task is a part of the Identifying Appropriate Sources of Information task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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