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Task: Students use recent information obtained from space exploration to show how and why beliefs have changed over time. Assessment focus: interpreting information about the provisional nature of science.

Students are provided with a narrative of two children who have gone back to the past at a time when dinosaurs existed. Students have a number of questions to answer during the narrative.

The focus of this resource is on selecting prepositions appropriate to the context.

Students read an advertisement then identify and explain some of its language features.

Students read an article on cold water survival and retrieve information from this text.

Some notes on the rabbit calicivirus are provided. Students use these and their own understandings of food chains to answer four questions.

Students draw lines to divide up shapes into fractional parts.

Students read the letters written by four different people and identify the main idea of each letter.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in or near an ocean, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in an ocean environment.

For this NEMP task students fill in a postcard about a holiday. Students' writing is assessed on postcard conventions, content, and legibility.

Students read a story 'The Gift' and answer questions about comprehension, point of view and inference.

Task: Match cards to show the relationship of birds' beaks and feet to the food they eat. Assessment focus: adaptations.

Students recognise equal and different likelihoods when playing a game of chance.

Students read an article about an investigation into the sustainable harvest of pīkao and identify key features of the investigation. Assessment focus: interpreting information about how scientists work.

Students complete the wording for an advertisement about recycling. They need to complete sections on why, what, and how we recycle.

This resource requires students to construct a graph on data for temperature and depth below the Earth's crust. Students then answer four questions about this.

Students are provided with information about the Earth's interior. Using this information and a provided scale, students construct and label a scale diagram of the Earth's interior.

Students are provided with five rules to follow during a thunderstorm with lightning. Students select two of these rules and explain the science behind the rule.

This task requires students to order four photographs of the life cycle of the Paradise Duck. Students describe the changes that have occurred in each part of the lifecycle. NOTE: It is intended that this resource be used in colour.

Task: Use evidence to make inferences about how leaves help plants survive in particular environments. Assessment focus: leaf adaptations.

For this practical task students investigate convection currents when tea leaves are placed into a beaker of water that is being heated. They are asked to make observations and to provide an explanation of what they have observed.

This task has students writing about themselves. Assessment focus: the use of capitals.

Using data from three different locations, students calculate the time difference between the arrival of P and S waves and the distance of each location from an earthquake's epicentre. Students use these distances to locate the epicentre on a map of NZ.

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

Students use a table of contents from a book about deserts to answer questions.