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Task: Investigate mass required to lift a small rock when changing distance from pivot. Assessment focus: levers.

Task: Predict whether given objects will float, investigate, then record and explain results. Assessment focus: flotation.

Task: Use a diagram to match shadows to a time of day. Assessment focus: shadows.

Task: Identify the position of the sun and the time of day when the shadows shown is formed. Assessment focus: shadows.

Task: Answer questions about rowing. Assessment focus: levers.

Task: Answer two multiple choice questions. Assessment focus: managing variables.

Task: Answer questions about levers. Assessment focus: levers.

Task: Use displacement to measure volume. Assessment focus: displacement.

Task: Identify patterns in a table and suggest ways to make a toy travel further. Assessment focus: interpreting data; energy; forces.

Students read a passage about a proposed fair test and then list four variables that need to be controlled.

Task: Explain how to use the magnet to remove a drawing pin out of a glass of water without putting the magnet in the glass, touching the glass with hands, or spilling the water. Assessment focus: using knowledge of magnetism to solve a problem.

Task: Students answer questions about what will make mountain bike riders go faster. Assessment focus: Air resistance.

Students carry out and make observations about water in a straw, and suction. Students are then required to explain their observations.

Students describe the images seen in flat and convex mirrors.

Choose which toy vehicle will roll further, and explain why. The two vehicles are set up under different conditions (ramps at different slopes, rolling onto different surfaces at the bottom). Assessment focus: science explanations using ideas about forces and energy.

Explain what affects the distance travelled by toy cars, and why they eventually stop. Assessment focus: science explanations using ideas about forces and energy.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

Students use the term force to explain why a heavier hammer could drive nails into denser material and explain density.

Students carry out a simple experiment with static electricity and then explain their findings.

Students carry out a simple experiment to illustrate refraction. They then explain why this happened.

Task: read an article about releasing hand-reared kaka into a safe environment and answer questions about the research. Assessment focus: field investigations.

Students are asked to explain why the Southern Cross appears not to be in the same place in the night sky that it was a few months previously.

This task requires students to develop questions about their local geology and name possible information sources.