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Students identify given fractions of sets.

Students identify windows that are covered by curtains for given fractions.

Students match the descriptions: certain, impossible, good chance, poor chance, even chance to a set of probabilities shown as a fraction.

This task requires students to interpret a pie graph about sports watched on TV and answer multiple choice questions.

Students explain the differences between the terms; genotype and phenotype; and homozygous and heterozygous.

Task: Answer questions about frog's skin adaptations, and use this information to think about consequences of chytrid fungus for Archey's frogs. Assessment focus: using information to think about management of native endangered species.

Students identify the smallest fraction of a turn so that a shape remains the same.

From a list of language techniques that writers use to emphasise a word or idea, students identify which ones have been used in some sentences and then write their own examples.

Students reflect on notes taken during a rugby game to write an effective report. They also consider some features that will add effect to their report. A link to student support material is given under the "Working with Students" tab.

This is a resource on sentence types. Students use four definitions of sentence types to classify six sentences.

Identify from four circuit diagrams which bulbs will light up. Assessment focus: electrical circuits.

Students answer four questions on echoes and sound insulation.

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

Task: Select the correct reason why a bird on a power line does not get electrocuted and select pictures of danger of electrocution, justifying choice. Assessment focus: understanding of the route taken by electricity/electrocution.

From a collection of familiar objects, students identify all those that can be a source of light. They then explain the term 'source of light'.

Task: Identify colours and surfaces that keep things cool. Assessment focus: heat absorption.

Task: investigate reflection of light using a torch and mirror. Assessment focus: angle of reflection.

Students draw a strange space creature from an oral description. The assessment focus is on listening to descriptions, recalling details, and following instructions.

Students draw a strange sea creature from an oral description. The assessment focus is on listening to descriptions, recalling details, and following instructions.

Student read an extract from a speech that contains examples of a rhetorical question, exaggeration, understatement, allusion, and contrast. Using the examples from the speech to help them, students write a definition of each language feature..

Students are asked to explain the meaning of the terms, recycle, reduce, and reuse.

Students solve story problems involving multiplication and division.

Students use the Beaufort Scale of wind speed to categorise diary entries about the wind in Auckland.

Students answer three short answer questions on weather, frost, and clouds.

For this task students identify what may cause clouds to be at different heights and then interpret weather information to answer a multiple-choice question about fog.