Interpret representations resources

Students answer five questions interpreting data on temperature decrease in three different types of cups.

Task: interpret data from a table and complete two calculations. The context is balancing a see-saw. Assessment focus: using a scientific formula to identify trends.

For this practical task students investigate the magnetic fields that exist around a horseshoe magnet. Students then use two bar magnets to investigate what happens when similar and unlike poles are facing each other.

Three key variables related to high altitude flight are displayed graphically. Students use the information provided to answer a series of questions about flight.

Students match each of seven circuit symbols provided to its respective name. Then the students use the symbols to complete the simple circuit diagram as described.

Students use keywords to label a simple circuit, and then explain how someone would know if the circuit is on or off.

Task: Identify direction of currents and explain reason for pattern. Assessment focus: convection patterns.

Identify from four circuit diagrams which bulbs will light up. Assessment focus: electrical circuits.

Answer questions about a table comparing the energy usage and lifespan of different sorts of lights, and use this information to complete a second table to describe advantages and disadvantages of each. Assessment focus: reading a technical table.

Students indicate on a circuit diagram where they would place switches in order to achieve various situations, such as the lamps being on, off, and other combinations.

Students are given six different circuit diagrams. They state how brightly these bulbs will glow when compared to another circuit.

Students are provided with an illustration of two different circuits. Students are required to draw the two illustrations as circuit diagrams.

This resource assess students' understanding of circuits when they explain what is wrong in five different circuit diagrams.

Students use a diagram of a circuit to answer questions about which bulbs are in parallel and which are in series. Students are also required to put a switch into the circuit diagram provided.

Students are given stimulus material on the stopping distance of a toy car released from different heights. Students write an aim, the best way to present the results, identify the measurement required in order to calculate the average speed, and write a conclusion for the investigation.

Students indicate how brightly a bulb would glow in three different circuits. Students then use pictures of four appliances, showing the arrangement of their cells, to draw circuit symbol diagrams illustrating this cell arrangement.

Task: Draw, using symbols, circuit diagrams of three described circuits. Assessment focus: using conventions of circuit diagram; knowledge of circuit construction.

Task: Describe how the light rays move through a glass prism.

Task: Answer questions about the surface of water in a water cooler on a moving train. Assessment focus: forces.

Task: complete 2 diagrams. Assessment focus: centre of gravity.

Students select which of five compass orientations best show the direction of a magnetic field at four different locations.

Students answer a multiple choice question about what happens when a magnetised object is cut in half, and then draw the lines of the magnetic field around two magnets.

Task: draw a diagram showing how a periscope works. Assessment focus: reflected light.

Students interpret two cartoon-style drawings of the enhanced greenhouse effect and write a short description of the artist’s message, as they see this.

This assessment task requires students to graph data on the size of the ozone layer over Antarctica. Students then answer four short questions relating to the data and their graph.