Use evidence resources

Using a diagram of a crab, students explain some of the crab's adaptations.

Using provided information students answer three multiple-choice questions about numbers of atoms, elements, molecules and compounds.

Students select the correct written definition of the words element, compound, and mixture.

Four diagrams showing different ways plants store food (tuber, bulb, corm, and a tap root) are provided. Students are asked to identify which method of food storage different plants use. Three short answer questions are also included.

On a diagram of a flowering plant, students write in the name of each of the indicated plant parts. They are then asked to name the part that makes seeds, and makes food.

Task: Describe what sort of day it is easiest to see shadows, and answer 2 multiple choice questions about length of shadows and time of day. Assessment focus: shadows.

Students are asked to identify two impending signs of a volcanic eruption and to describe four geological events that are linked to volcanic eruptions.

Students are asked to explain how a stone from the top of a mountain could become sand on a beach. Students then identify the most likely way stones 'move' from the tops of mountains to the coast.

Students answer three short answer questions on weather, frost, and clouds.

Using a labelled flower, students select the parts which are responsible for seed formation, pollen production, and bud protection.

Students answer questions about conditions necessary for germination, seed dispersal, and parts of a flower. Assessment focus: plant reproduction.

Task: Use written text and pictures to explain how the special features of Old Man's Beard help it survive. Assessment focus: identifying how the special features help this plant to survive.

Task: Fill in a chart to identify the damage caused by various animal pests. Assessment focus: specific contextual knowledge about animal pests.

Task: describe what would happen to four items of food when left in the sun. Assessment focus: change.

Students are provided with a narrative of two children who have gone back to the past at a time when dinosaurs existed. Students have a number of questions to answer during the narrative.

Students are given a partially completed table which details materials which are used as either conductors or insulators of heat. Students complete the table by indicating whether the materials conduct or insulate heat or give an example of its use.

Students interpret a table of data in order to answer four questions on the properties of five different types of paper.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in a garden, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in a garden.

Decide whether the photographed animals are reptiles or not, and justify responses. (A fact file giving the features of reptiles is given.) Answer a question about why scientists have an agreed way of grouping living things. Assessment focus: using science-based classifications.

Task: Identify the features of three animals, name their classification group, and answer two questions comparing features of the groups. Assessment focus: classification of animals.

Students are given four pictures, and are asked to draw a circle around the picture that is not a bird, and then give a reason for their choice. Similarly, they circle animals that are not mammals, fish, and molluscs.