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Youth Hostel In this task, students must come up with the best room assignments for a Youth Hostel. This task includes: |
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YouthCaN In the YouthCaN task, students will share their interest in environmental topics and collaborate on projects year round through online forums, video conferencing and meeting at conferences. This project is co-sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, iEARN , Caretakers of the Earth/USA and a number of high school environmental organizations. |
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Zak The Zak task allows students to demonstrate their ability to match dialogue to pictures and to draw appropriate conclusions. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are five pictures, an audio recording, and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Listening task series from 2006 by NEMP. |
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Zines The Zines unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 5 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources. Unit description from source: In Zines, students discuss, investigate and evaluate popular print and online media and publish their own work. Building on their interests, students develop skills in researching, gathering information, and writing and presenting different kinds of texts and images through the publishing process. Students use information and communications technology, including the Internet, for researching and for publishing their own work online or in ‘hard copy’ publications. |
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Zippos The Zippos task allows students to demonstrate their ability to recall information, draw appropriate conclusions, and represent information visually. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are an audio recording and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Listening task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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Zoo Train In Zoo Train students will create an addition equation to determine the number of passengers on a train. They will then use division to determine how many train cars are needed to carry all the passengers. This task includes: |
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Zoo Trip The Zoo Trip task allows students to demonstrate their ability to find information on a website. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a computer program, a laptop computer, and an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Finding and Gathering Information 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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Zulu Chief This task assesses students’ ability to source, contextualize, and corroborate a photograph of a Zulu Chief by American photographer Frank Carpenter. Students must reason about the content and the circumstances of its creation to evaluate its reliability as evidence. Students also must determine what additional information might help corroborate the evidence in the photograph. Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment as well as the Rubric with benchmark descriptors. |
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Zzz The Zzz task allows students to demonstrate their ability to construct a graph. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a bar graph in a recording book and a ruler. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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iMagzz - Making Myself Heard In this task, students will create a student magazine on any subject they deem important through writing advertisements, banners, newspaper articles, diary entries, interviews, etc. This task includes: |
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