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Wonderful Water The Wonderful Water task allows students to explain buoyancy and flotation in three situations. Students will complete this task working independently. This task requires no resources. This task is a part of the Physical World task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Word Power The Word Power task allows students to demonstrate their ability to pronounce correctly English words that may be unfamiliar to them. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a list of words and a masking card. This task is a part of the Oral Reading task series from 2000 by NEMP. |
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Work it Out (Y4) The Work it Out (Y4) task allows students to explain their computational strategies using multiplication cards. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are cards. This task is a part of the Number & Algebra 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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Work it Out (Y8) The Work it Out (Y8) task allows students to explain their computational strategies using multiplication cards. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are cards. This task is a part of the Number & Algebra 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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Working Together The Working Together task allows students to demonstrate their ability to create a set of rules collaboratively. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are paper pads, a summary of instructions, and an activity sheet. This task is a part of the Organization task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Working Well with Others In this task, students will explore the skills necessary to collaborate with others. This task includes: |
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Working with 1, 3, 4, 18 The Working with 1, 3, 4, 18 task allows students to demonstrate their ability to construct number sentences. Students will use the numbers 1, 3, 4, and 18 to complete the number sentences using addition, subtractions, division, multiplication, and fractions. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are four yellow cards (numbered 1, 3, 4, and 18) and three cards with addition and subtraction symbols . This task is a part of the Number task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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World Current Events The World Current Events task allows students to demonstrate their awareness and knowledge or world current events. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Time, Continuity, and Change task series from 2005 by NEMP. |
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World War I Advertising This task requires students to consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of a document as historical evidence. Students with a sophisticated understanding of how to source a document will be able to explain that the Kodak advertisement is useful in that it provides indirect information about the lives of soldiers and how they were able to communicate with family at the time. They will also point out that this image was created for the purposes of an advertisement, making it less useful as specific evidence of what life was like for U.S. soldiers. Resources include PDF downloads of the assessment with source materials, and a rubric with benchmark descriptors. |
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World We Live in/ Мир, в котором мы живем In the World We Live in/ Мир, в котором мы живем task, students will discuss the world and environment they live in and how to improve it according to the Sustainable Development Goals with students from different countries. They will share their thoughts, ideas with each other by answering the questions suggested during the discussion as well as by exchanging essays, and sharing pictures and photos |
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