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Task: use a key to identify a fish, then complete a key to identify shellfish. Assessment focus: Interpreting representations - classification keys.

Task: Answer two questions about melting and two questions about dissolving. Assessment focus: describe and explain melting and dissolving.

Task: Use close observation of photos and prior knowledge, to write explanations of how the special features of animal tongues help animals survive in their habitats. Assessment focus: structure and function.

Students are asked one multiple-choice and one short answer question about fair testing.

Task: Read a short piece of narrative. Identify and explain the behavioural adaptations of oystercatchers. Assessment focus: interpreting text to identify behavioural adaptations and their purposes.

Task: Look for similarities and differences in fruit to answer questions about observation and evidence.

Task: Look for the similarities and differences in how students draw graphs to display information.

Students use a circuit diagram to answer questions about how removing bulbs affects the other bulbs in the circuit. Assessment focus: Electrical circuits

Task: Answer questions about a monarch butterfly's life cycle. Assessment focus: insect life cycle. This resource includes an interactive infographic. You will need Adobe Flash Player to view it.

Task: Students read a pH scale to determine how it shows the increasing strength of an acid and a base solution and decide from different pH products what the effect would be on an acidic soil. Assessment focus: interpreting a pH scale.

Students use circuit diagrams to answer three questions about switches and which lamps will light up.

Students interpret a circuit diagram to decide whether a bulb will glow with different settings of two switches.

Task: Answer 2 multiple choice questions about how we would see Moon from Earth if its orbit changed. Assessment focus: relationship of Sun, Earth, and Moon.

Task: Using the given pH, classify 10 common substances as acidic, basic, or neutral. Assessment focus: knowledge of the pH scale

Task: Match each part of a torch to its name, identify whether the torch in the diagram is on or off and provide evidence for opinion, and suggest ways to make the torchlight brighter. Assessment focus: parts of a torch and the function of some of these parts.

Using a diagram of a torch, students explain the function of the following parts; cell, metal cone, metal strip, spring, and switch. Students also draw a circuit diagram for the torch.

Task: Answer a multiple choice question and explain the reason for choice. Assessment focus: simple circuits and switches.

Task: Use data in a table to construct a graph and answer questions about the patterns. Assessment focus: interpreting tables and graphs.

Task: Answer questions about how a seesaw works and use an equation to calculate how to balance the seesaw.

Task: Transfer information from a table to a graph, label the bottom axis and describe the pattern of the data. Assessment focus: graph construction; graph interpretation.

Task: interpret a graph of a car's journey and add to the graph to represent a further description of the journey. Assessment focus: graph interpretation.

Students answer five questions interpreting data on temperature decrease in three different types of cups.

Task: interpret data from a table and complete two calculations. The context is balancing a see-saw. Assessment focus: using a scientific formula to identify trends.

For this practical task students investigate the magnetic fields that exist around a horseshoe magnet. Students then use two bar magnets to investigate what happens when similar and unlike poles are facing each other.

Three key variables related to high altitude flight are displayed graphically. Students use the information provided to answer a series of questions about flight.