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Task: Answer questions about what happens to the light form a torch. Assessment focus: light.

Task: Answer a multiple choice questions about what would be seen on earth if a meteor hit the moon, and explain why that answer is correct. Assessment focus: how sound and light travel.

Students formulate questions about glaciers and climate change to show awareness that informed opinions are based on inter-related aspects of evidence rather than individual instances.

For each of eight provided situations students identify whether each is an example of evaporation, condensation or neither of these.

This task consists of two multiple-choice questions on humidity.

Students identify three different places where food can be put to keep it cool. Students also explain why keeping food cool is beneficial.

Students name things that are protected by paint. Students also explain why metal needs protecting.

Students are given a mind map showing some properties of carbon dioxide. Students identify each of these as either a physical or chemical property.

Students are asked to give a useful property for each of four materials used in different situations.

Students select which type of sugar would dissolve fastest and explain why.

Students are provided with drawings of three methods to collect gases and the characteristics of four gases. Students match the gases with the method of collection that would need to be used.

Using provided data students decide which of three liquids would freeze if placed in a freezer. Students explain what happens to particles when they freeze and how the level changes due to freezing.

Students decide if each of three sentences about solids, liquids, and gases is true or false and then give a reason for their answer.

Students draw diagrams to show the particle arrangement in a solid, liquid, and a gas. Students then describe the differences in arrangement and movement of the particles for each of these states.

Students decide whether four statements about particular nature of matter are true or false and then give a reason for their answer.

Students are provided with some information on the diet of eight NZ birds. Students use this information to fill in a table that identifies which birds are herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores.

Students answer questions about the materials that pass through the placenta between the mother and the baby.

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.

Students explain the function of the veins, waxy layer of the upper surface of the leaf, how the shape of the leaf traps light energy and why the upper surface of the leaf is a darker green than the lower surface.

This resource has four multiple-choice questions about photosynthesis.

Students list advantages and disadvantages of recycling. The assessment focuses on students' ability to identify impacts on the environment and its inhabitants (including people).

Students explain their understandings of the benefits of having trees in the school playground.

Students are provided with five rules to follow during a thunderstorm with lightning. Students select two of these rules and explain the science behind the rule.