4th Grade Performance Task
Contributed by: New York State Education Department (NYSED)
NYS Alternative Assessment in Science Project (1996)
Student #3


Directions:
A. Place all of the candy on the test card in the box labeled
Place Candy Here.
B. Using the test card as your guide, divide all the candies
into two (2) groups, group 1 and group 2.
C. All of the candies in group 1 must have the same
property and all of the candies in group 2 must have
the same property.
D. Use all the candy.
Questions:
1. What property does the candy in group 1 have?

2. What property does the candy in group 2 have?

Directions:
E. Next, using the test card as your guide, divide group 1
into two (2) groups, A and B, so that all of the candy in
each of the new groups has the same property.
F. Use all of the candy in group 1.
Questions:
3. What property does the candy in group A have?
4. What property does all the candy in group B have?

Directions:
G. Next, go back to group 2. Using the test card as your
guide, divide group 2 into two (2) groups, C and
D, so that all of the candy in each of the new groups
has the same property.
H. Use all of the candy in group 2.
Questions:
5. What property does the candy in group C have?
6. What property does the candy in group D have?

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