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This task assesses student ability to find the text features of an explanation of a scientific idea.

Students identify the centre of enlargement and the scale factor for an enlargement on a grid.

Students explain what the effects of draining a pond would have on the ducks and reeds that live there.

In this practical task, students cut out regular polygons and decide whether that shape will tessellate.

Students calculate the volume of blocks in a cylinder, the cylinder and the space around the blocks.

For this NEMP task students calculate the answers to a series of subtraction problems.

Students calculate the distance around three different sized gardens.

For this NEMP task students use all addition and subtraction operations in calculations involving fractions.

Students interpret a pie graph by answering questions on how city rates were spent over one year.

Students answer one question about diet given the type of beak that birds have. Students are also asked about how scientists might investigate information about moa.

For this NEMP task students performs a series of increasingly difficult addition problems presented in vertical algorithms.

A newspaper story about a runaway weather balloon with a map that tracks its progress is the context for this assessment. Students read it to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Task: View photograph to explain how a chiton protects itself in its environment. Assessment focus: identifying features that help to protect an animal in its particular environment.

Task: Look for similarities and differences in fruit to answer questions about observation and evidence.

Students research and take notes in preparation for writing a biography of a famous New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

Students research and write a biographical recount on the life of a well-known New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

Task: Use written text and pictures to explain how the special features of Old Man's Beard help it survive. Assessment focus: identifying how the special features help this plant to survive.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in a garden, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in a garden.

For this practical students make observations on water flow from three holes set at different heights in a container. They also investigate the effect on water flow if the top is on or off the container.

A council survey is to be sent out, and students are asked to give examples of representative samples.

Students match the names of five animal pests to notes on each of these pests.

Students select from the words 'certain', 'likely', 'unlikely', and 'impossible' to show the probability of a spinner landing on a defined area.

For this NEMP task students perform a range of tasks using fractions. These include ordering, subtracting, finding an equivalent and recording as a decimal and percentage.

Students colour in a diagram to show fractions, and calculate fractions from a word problem and a diagram.

Three key variables related to high altitude flight are displayed graphically. Students use the information provided to answer a series of questions about flight.