Interpret representations resources

Task: Draw what happens when sugar is added to a cup of coffee. Assessment focus: dissolving.

Students are provided with nutritional information on three different types of milk. Students use this information to answer a number of questions.

Students are given diagrams representing the three states of matter. Students answer four questions relating to these.

Students demonstrate their knowledge of solid, liquid, and gas particles by drawing the particle arrangement for wax vapour, molten wax, and candle wax.

Students interpret a table on the properties of plastics by answering a series of short questions.

Students use information on the properties of five different drinks in order to place them correctly into a key.

Students identify the changes of state that are occurring in a diagram showing the separation of fresh water from seawater.

Students are given the formula of two different types of chlorophyll. Students name all the elements present, and how the number of atoms differs between the chlorophylls.

Students are given some information about four gases. They use this information and a key to identify the four gases.

Students interpret the diagrams of mixtures, solutions, and pure substances. Then they draw diagrams to represent other combinations of substances.

Students classify 12 common substances as either a compound, mixture, or element.

Students draw a graph from some information they are given about the heating of meths in a water bath. Students then explain in terms of particles what is happening for the sloping section and the flat section of the graph.

Students use diagrams of substances with labelled atoms to write their chemical formula.

Students answer a multi choice question and draw and explain their understandings about heat convection in a hot water cylinder. Assessment focus: Using science ideas to explain heat convection.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about one of our native birds. The task is essentially a literacy task in the context of scientific writing, and can also be accessed from the English Bank.

Task: Students answer questions about a soil food web. Assessment focus: reading a food web, systems thinking.

Task: Explain the science messages communicated in a cartoon. Assessment focus: decomposition and photosynthesis.

Task: Use written text about farming's contribution to climate change to complete a flow chart, and answer questions about the two texts. Assessment focus: interpreting, using, and comparing different types of text.

Task: Play a card game to join two sentence fragments to complete a sentence. Assessment focus: a) relationships of elements in a waterway, and b) science vocabulary.

Task: Students play a card game to construct a waterways relationships web. Assessment focus: relationships within a waterways ecosystem.

Task: Students answer questions about a Southern Ocean food web. Assessment focus: interpreting food webs.

Students identify the producers, herbivores, and carnivores in four illustrated food chains. Students then explain each of these terms and explain what the arrows in food chains mean.

Task: Read a story about a cat and use the information to draw a food chain. Assessment focus: Using information to construct a food chain.

Task: Match descriptions of kingfishers to their likely diet, and answer questions about food chains. Assessment focus: interpretation of text and pie graphs; conventions of food chains.

Task: Students answer questions about feeding relationships in a rocky shore ecosystem. Assessment focus: interpreting a food web.