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Students identify square and cubic numbers mentally in a timed test.

Assessment focus: ability to critically analyse and interpret a visual text, based on individual perception and the use of descriptors (visual/verbal/sound etc) to illustrate interpretation.

Task: Students play a tag game that simulates the relationships between elements within a waterway and discuss how different scenarios impact on the populations living there. Assessment focus: changes within a habitat affect everything living there.

For this practical task the entire class is involved in an outside activity that looks at camouflage and warning colouration. Students then share their results and answer a number of questions.

Task: Predict, Observe, Explain, (POE) activity observing what happens to air in a balloon when it is heated. Assessment focus: behaviour of gases when heated and cooled.

Students are provided with two photographs of an area, one before a tree planting programme and one five years later. Students are asked to write an article on how tree-planting helps the environment.

Students work out the stock rate (number of sheep per hectare) for a farm and use it to determine the maximum number of sheep for the winter.

Using a stimulus diagram showing plate tectonics, students explain why the following geological features or events; earthquakes, mid-ocean ridge, ocean trench, and volcanoes are present.

Students are provided with a map of NZ showing the average annual rainfall in different areas. Students interpret this information to answer three short answer questions, and then construct a bar graph that shows the rainfall for nine North Island locations.

Students give two pieces of information a scientist could learn from placing bands on the legs of birds.

Task: Use a diagram to answer questions about seasons and day and night. Assessment focus: relationship of Sun and Earth.

For this NEMP task students use multiplication and division operations in calculations involving fractions.

For this NEMP task students listened to a set of directions, then followed instructions to show this information on a map.

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

For this practical task students write a plan to find out if a microwave has a 'hot spot'. Students carry out their plan, collect, and interpret results.

Task: describe what would happen to four items of food when left in the sun. Assessment focus: change.

Students decide which arrow on three spinners is most likely to point to white, and explain their reasons.

Students are given a diagram of a glacier, and asked to identify natural hazards and the possible effect of increased temperature on the position of the glacier snout.

Students place photos of a canoe trip in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Students place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Students place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.

Students are required to read a poem to a small group. A preparation checklist for students is provided. A self-assessment guide for students and a parallel scoring guide for teachers are provided.

Students interpret time frames and slope from a graph showing the area of a painted wall over time.

Students use a video clip as the stimulus for completing a poem. Scaffolds are provided for this process.

Students make choices about which adjectives to use to create a poem about a school of fish. A video clip provides the stimulus for this task.