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For this NEMP task students perform a range of addition and subtraction calculations using whole numbers and decimals.

Students answer three questions about air pressure in balloons, why helium balloons float, and why a popped balloon makes a noise.

Task: Describe what happens to water on black plastic and explain why. Assessment focus: effect of colour on heat retention.

Students work out the change from given amounts of money for different purchases.

Students prepare a 2 to 3 minute speech, to inform, persuade, or entertain. Topics suitable for secondary students are provided. Assessment guides A, B, and C are suitable for this task.

Students identify the repeating part of patterns.

From a key of terms (heat, kinetic, light, potential and sound), students select the word which describes some common examples of energy change.

Students calculate addition and subtraction problems, written in decimal form, for city populations.

Students work out the difference in distances of throws and jumps of various athletic events.

This grammar resource has a focus on verbs. Students identify verbs in sentences, and answer questions on the active or passive voice.

Students are assessed on their knowledge of parts of speech. They work through a short text and identify the nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

Students explain what an adjective is and identify adjectives in some sentences.

This task assesses student understanding of how the form of a word affects the way it is used, i.e., whether a word is used as a noun or a verb.

Students select answers that demonstrate their understanding of alphabetical order.

Students write headlines for brief newspaper items. This task assesses student ability to summarise text as a headline.

Students select from four pictures of laden trucks which is least likely to roll over when cornering, and explain their predictions. This resource assesses students' understanding of centre of gravity.

Students explain how the parts of a torch help it work.

Students list four things that wouldn't work and the problems this would cause if there was a power cut to their home.

Students draw two wires to complete a simple circuit diagram from a battery to a bulb so that it shines.

Students are given pictures of four different ways time can be measured (sundial, hourglass, candle with lines, clock). Students then explain how each can be used to measure time.

Students work out the height of trees which have grown by different percentages, and work out the percentage growth from two given heights.

Students give the fraction or ratio of brown to white eggs in some cartons.

Students calculate the lengths and areas of a road sign.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks, commas, and full stops into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

Students perform addition, multiplication, and percentage calculations based on information about the cost of buying and posting computer programs.