Interpret representations resources

Task: Answer questions about a key for metals: Assessment focus: recognising the purpose of a specific key.

Students are required to write the number of some parts in the life cycle of a butterfly into a diagram of the life cycle of a butterfly.

Using the genetic characteristic for ear lobes, students answer questions about the genotype, and construct a punnet square.

Using the information provided on unattached and attached ear lobes, students complete a family tree for this genetic trait.

Students are provided with a graph of the heating curve for octane. Students use this to answer questions about state, temperatures, and changes of state.

Students use a table of information on melting points and boiling points of six different substances to answer questions about states of matter.

The liquid range for four common substances has been provided. Students use this to answer questions about melting point, boiling point, and state.

Students are given an outline of an investigation on heat loss from two different shaped objects (a cube and a sphere). They answer questions on variable control, repeat trialling, and they then graph data from this investigation.

Students are given an outline of an investigation on metal corrosion and a graph of some results. Students' ability to interpret the graph and knowledge of fair testing is assessed via short answer questions.

The results of three different crosses between long-haired and short-haired rabbits have been provided. Students state, with a reason which characteristic is dominant and complete a punnet square for one of the crosses.

Students use a diagram showing similar and dissimilar characteristics of reptiles, birds, and mammals, to answer questions regarding these features.

Task: use a key to identify which major group 4 plants belong to. Assessment focus: using a key to classify plants.

Task: Design a plant that meets the criteria for a particular environment. Assessment focus: identifying specific features of a plant and explaining how they help it survive in its environment.

Task: Use a diagram and fact file to answer questions about sharks' fins. Assessment focus: adaptations of sharks to facilitate movement in water.

Students are provided with a map that has numbers on it representing various ash fall depths from a volcanic eruption. Students draw lines to link the similar numbers and answer questions about these. They also explain three major problems an ash fall could cause.

Students are given results from an investigation looking at light intensity and its effect on the rate of photosynthesis in two plants. Students are required to draw line graphs of this data and then answer a number of questions pertaining to this.

Task: Answer questions about frog's skin adaptations, and use this information to think about consequences of chytrid fungus for Archey's frogs. Assessment focus: using information to think about management of native endangered species.

Task: Interpret the information on a chart to provide evidence of the likely cause of oxygen deficiency. Assessment focus: interpreting data.

Use knowledge of insulation to answer questions about baked Alaska dessert, and how it compares to a chilly bin. Assessment focus: Interpreting diagrams, interpreting analogies, and using knowledge of insulation.

Using information about 'feeding links' between several different animals and plants students draw a food web to show all these links.

Students use a diagram that shows a food web to answer five questions about the information within the food web.

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: Use a Venn diagram to interpret a food web based on the vegetable garden. Assessment focus: using diagrams to identify relationships between organisms; using systems thinking to describe these relationships.

Task: Complete a graph from data in a table, and answer two questions. Assessment focus: speed and stopping.

Students interpret distance-time graphs for a number of scenarios.