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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.

Students are given a diagram of a fly and are asked to give three reasons why this animal is not a spider.

Students identify which one of the four drawn animals is not an insect, and then give a reason for their choice.

Task: sort pictures into specified groups and identify features that are common to each group. Assessment focus: classification of insects/non-insects.

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.

Task: Describe changes to iron as it is heated or cooled. Assessment focus: changes to metals as they are heated and cooled.

Students name things that are protected by paint. Students also explain why metal needs protecting.

Students identify three different places where food can be put to keep it cool. Students also explain why keeping food cool is beneficial.

Students read an extract from the narrative 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and answer a combination of multiple-choice and short answer questions.

Students match pictures of objects with a list of capacities involving litres and millilitres.

Students identify the approximate capacities of everyday containers.

Students answer questions about the total capacity in litres given the number of cups that fill the containers.

Task: Students use observation and a key to identify native plants. Assessment focus: Using a classification key.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Task: Make observations from a photograph, identify potential environmental problems giving reasons, decide which problem is the most important, and give reasons for the choice. Assessment focus: (1) observation, and (2) identifying and prioritising cause and effect relationships.

For this NEMP task students draw the other half of a shape by using its line of symmetry.

Students review their knowledge of greenhouse gases and the effects of global warming. They identify areas where they are unsure, as well as things they know.

Students perform addition, subtraction and division calculations based on numbers of coloured jelly beans.

Assessment focus: ability of students to use both knowledge acquired from the text and their own backgrounds. This task assesses student ability to critically engage with media texts.

This practical task requires students to order numbers with 2 decimal places from smallest to largest using digit cards. New numbers with 2 decimal places are then created with the digit cards.

Using grids, students show three different ways of tessellating four identical shapes.

Students solve a number of mathematical problems involving money and distance, and compare the results to identify the cheapest taxi company.

Students match photographs of bird beaks to the correct beak description and type of food it would eat.

Students identify odd and even numbers by colouring them different colours.