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Task: Identify the variables for testing how fresh water and salt water affect rusting. Assessment focus: planning a fair test.

This is a collection of science tasks across the science capabilities and contextual strands.

Different selections are made from a canteen menu that will cost a given amount. An extension activity is given that asks for all possible combinations to be found.

Students read a poster on sand dunes to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students enlarge shapes by whole number scale factors.

Assessment focus: finding important information and the main idea of an informational text. The text used is about an introduced species of fish which has become a pest. SJ-2-4-2005. Text provided.

Students use number lines to show how to solve whole number addition and subtraction problems.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

Students read an article about Tuatara to be able to fill in a chart with specific information. SJ-1-3-1998. Text provided.

Students read an article about castles to complete a retrieval chart using information from the text. SJ-1-2-1995. Text provided.

Students interpret a table of distances for a long jump competition, written to two decimal places, finding the longest and shortest jumps and ordering sets of three numbers.

Students work out how much time some bus trips take.

This task requires students to answer questions about a stem-and-leaf graph of the lengths of seventeen frogs.

This practical task requires students to use methods of separation to separate a mixture of salt, sand, and iron filings. Students explain how they did this and the property of the substance that they used.

Students create character vignettes with a focus on writing pieces that are brief, descriptive and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing, and to use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.

Students use addition and subtraction to calculate the changing balance in a students back account.

Students use the information in an article to interpret the body language of cats in nine different pictures. This task assesses student ability to bring together written and visual texts to show their comprehension. The text is reproduced in the Teacher information pages. SJ-3-1-1990. Text not provided.

Four conventions for speech bubbles are presented with the students showing their understanding by having matching appropriate text to the bubbles.

Students are asked to read a short story and to insert the commas and speech marks required to indicate the direct speech in the story.

The main focus of this task is punctuation. Students will read Janine's email to her new pen pal and insert eight question marks in the correct places.

Students expand common contractions to their full form, then write the contracted forms of other common two-word phrases.

Students read a letter written to the Board of Trustees, and make it more formal by writing the contractions as full words.

Students evaluate a fair test about whether salt or sugar solution dissolves faster.

Select the correct pair to set up a fair test. Assessment focus: controlling variables.