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

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.

Students first do the science activity Throwing Balloons 2 (PW2548) where they predict, observe, and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Then the students do this writing task where they describe the balloon and what happened when it was thrown, and explain why they think it moved the way it did. Six annotated exemplars of student scripts (writing) are included under the "Working with Students" tab.

Students read a story about family dynamics to answer inferential questions. SJ-3-3-1996. Text provided.

This task assesses close reading and making inferences about the setting, backdrop, props, costumes, and acting required in a performance of the Junior Journal play "Too Much Noise".

Students add up amounts of money including dollars and cents.

This task is about finding the circumference of a circle using two different radius measurements.

Students identify different shapes from clues about their properties and then create their own clues to share with a buddy.

Students give grid references, and drag and drop grid references onto a grid.

Students identify positions on a grid using grid references.