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Task: Students draw a fruit tree for each season of the year. Assessment focus: Seasonal changes of fruit trees.

Students cut out four drawings of different stages of a frog's life cycle. They place these in order, and then explain how the frog has changed.

Students answer two multiple-choice questions that look at the life cycle of butterflies and frogs.

Students outline four things that would need to be done to look after a garden for a month.

For this practical task students cut out descriptions of body part functions and match these to the various labelled parts of a human.

For this practical task, students cut out descriptions of body part functions, and match these to the various labelled parts of a dog.

Students answer three multiple-choice questions on the function of the lungs, heart, and kidneys.

For this task students match animals to a description that has characteristics of that animal group. Then students use keywords to identify the larger animal group a number of different animals belong to.

Students explain two things a baby animal needs from its mother. Students then describe how a human changes as it grows up and becomes an adult.

Students identify which one of the four drawn animals is not an insect, and then give a reason for their choice.

Students read about the adaptations of a fictitious dinosaur, and then draw and colour in a picture of a dinosaur that illustrates these adaptations.

For this practical task students are assessed on their understanding of the life cycle of a butterfly by putting pictures (of eggs, caterpillar, pupa, emerging butterfly, and butterfly) into the correct sequential order and answering some questions.

For this NEMP task students show their understanding of the life cycle, functions and parts of a tree.

Task: from a set of animals students identify which have observable features common to fish. They then use this information to identify which of the animals are fish. Assessment focus: classification of fish.

Task: Sequence drawings of a bean seedling to show order of events during germination. Assessment focus: germination.

This NEMP task assesses knowledge about plants and animals.

For this NEMP task students write about parts of the snail that help it survive.

For this NEMP task students write about the parts of a praying mantis that help it survives.

Diagrams of four different vertebrate tails are illustrated. Students are required to name an animal that has each type of tail, and then explain how the animal uses this type of tail.

Four different vertebrate animals are illustrated. For each animal the student needs to name the body part used by each animal to move, and then explain how this part makes the animal move.

Task: sort pictures into specified groups and identify features that are common to each group. Assessment focus: classification of insects/non-insects.

Students are provided with a picture of a New Zealand native bird. Students select a word from a given list to name each of these bird parts. Students are then required to explain why the bird needs each of these named parts.

Students identify the larger group that four animals belong the features that those groups have using images of the animals.

This practical task assesses students' ability to identify the larger group that four animals belong to and then to identify the features that those groups have using animal cards and labels.

Students are provided with six pictures of animals. They identify those that can fly, and explain what these animals have in common.