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Students construct and label a bar graph of the colour of passing cars from data in a table and answer questions interpreting the results.

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.

Task: Design a plant that meets the criteria for a particular environment. Assessment focus: identifying specific features of a plant and explaining how they help it survive in its environment.

Task: Use a diagram and fact file to answer questions about sharks' fins. Assessment focus: adaptations of sharks to facilitate movement in water.

Students read a narrative that is about being different and about group dynamics. Assessment focus: an evaluation of characters and the author's construction of them. (A link to the text is provided. Reading age <8.) SJ-1-4-2005. Text provided.

Student solve addition problems where the missing value is located in different positions. This may mean that students transform the problem into a subtraction one. Students reflect on the easiest and hardest problems, and explain their choice.

Students identify whether reflection, rotation, or translation best describes how a shape has been transformed.

Students find missing numbers to complete addition, subtraction and multiplication number patterns.

Students are provided with a table that gives them some properties of five different materials. They answer four short answer questions that involve interpreting information from the table.

Students show probabilities by shading a spinner.

In this practical task, students estimate, then measure, the length of two objects using a ruler.

Students calculate the shapes with the largest and smallest perimeter and identify a relationship between the features of a shape and the perimeter.

Students select from a set of numbers to show the closest number to each population fact.

Students select a true statement about the area of three shapes on a grid.

Students record all the different combinations of lunches that could be chosen from five possibilities.

Students select the answer for two subtraction problems, select which one they thought was easier, and explain their reasons for this.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information and establish the main idea of a narrative text. The text describes a person's experience of war and their learnings from it. SJ-2-1-2006. Text provided.

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

This task requires students to write down decimal numbers that are read out to them.

Students calculate the number of rocks in a wall set up as an array.

Task: Select which state of water applies to a list of places where water can be found. Assessment focus: states of water.

Use knowledge of insulation to answer questions about baked Alaska dessert, and how it compares to a chilly bin. Assessment focus: Interpreting diagrams, interpreting analogies, and using knowledge of insulation.

Task: Describe what happens to ice in a glass of water, giving reasons, and explain where water forming on the outside of the glass comes from. Assessment focus: changes of state.

Students calculate the area of four different triangle shapes on a grid.