Practical resources

This practical task requires students to make observations and draw diagrams about diffusion that occurs when food colouring is added to water.

Task: sort pictures into specified groups and identify features that are common to each group. Assessment focus: classification of insects/non-insects.

In this practical task, students use a coloured spinner and record the frequency of colours occurring. They then use their findings to record the probability of each event and interpret these.

Students use Cuisenaire rods or Animal strips to make up addition number sentences and record them.

Students use a cut out figure and clothes to record all the possible combinations from 2 shorts, 3 shirts, and 2 caps.

In this practical task students use a paper doll and cut out clothing to work out all possible clothing combinations.

Students use sticks to copy and continue a given spatial pattern, and identify the number of sticks needed to make a new shape in the pattern.

In this NEMP task students conduct a test to identify whether a number of substances are acid, base or neutral. They also answer a question about neutralising. Assessment focus: testing acid or base.

In this practical task, students follow a plan to construct a water timer. They then put on markings for times 1-5 minutes based on observations and recordings.

Students construct a spinner and use it to investigate predictions of the probability of outcomes. Findings are recorded in a student designed table.

Students conduct a statistical investigation into the sentence length of different types of books by making and comparing dot plots.

In this practical task, students interpret information presented in a strip graph, regroup the data, construct a new strip graph, and answer questions about the data.

For this practical task, students join 'dominos'. They match an animal feature on the initial 'domino' with the appropriate animal picture on the next 'domino'.