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Task: complete two multiple choice questions. Assessment focus: respiration of marine mammals and fish.

Task: Draw a line to match animals to their footprints, and explain why it may be useful to identify animals by their footprints. Assessment focus: using features to name animals.

Task: identify features of a spider. Assessment focus: classification of spider.

Students match photographs of bird beaks to the correct beak description and type of food it would eat.

Students are given some information about what to do when whales are stranded on our beaches. They answer three questions using this information to help them.

Students match the names of five animal pests to notes on each of these pests.

Select from multiple choice options. Assessment focus: classification features of insects and mammals.

Task: compare features of sea mammals and fish, and describe two features of mammals. Assessment focus: classification of fish and mammals.

Task: students write the sense related to various parts of a dog's body. Assessment focus: sensory organs.

Task: Identify adaptations of 3 animals that live under the soil, and design an animal that could live underground. Self-assess the design by considering given criteria. Assessment focus: adaptations that enable an animal to live underground.

Task: select which group pictures of animals belong to. Assessment focus: classification of small animals.

Task: Sort vertebrate animals according to given classification groups. Assessment focus: classification of animals.

This practical task assesses students' understanding of the different features of the vertebrate groups. Students need to identify the larger group that their animal card belongs too, then work with other students with the same group to write down all the features of that group.

Task: group pictures of animals under headings. Assessment focus: classification of mammals, birds, and insects.

Name the group various animals belong to. Assessment focus: classification.

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.

Task: Describe on a chart how a duck's features help it to survive, then infer what might happen if these features were changed in some way. Assessment focus: how adaptations aid survival.

Task: identify two features that enable a sea lion to live in water. Assessment focus: adaptations.