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Students give the number of vertices, straight lines, and curved lines and complete sentences to describe different 2-dimensional shapes.

Students find the next three shapes in several growing shape patterns and explain how they worked out the shapes.

Students identify objects on a shelf from given positional descriptions (above, below, over, under, beside, next to).

Students select the correct way to describe where a toy is located on a shelf.

Students read an article about the Moa then answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-3-1982. Text not provided.

Task: Students classify each of six drawn whales as either toothed or baleen whales. They then divide each group further by using a key. Assessment focus: Interpreting representations.

This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to make inferences about a character's feelings based on the evidence in a written and visual text, and their own prior experience.

Students view an online animation which illustrates stages of a volcanic eruption, write their observations and answer question about eruptions. Assessment focus: observations based on a model, and knowledge of volcanic eruptions.

Task: Create, use and identify ‘rules’ based on observable and/or measurable physical properties of common plastics. Assessment focus: classifying & identifying.

Students use the Modified Mercalli intensity scale to assign magnitudes to three described earthquakes. Then they interpret data about the distance from an epicentre, and explain why, from given information, one earthquake might be more damaging than another.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found on a dairy farm, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in a dairy farm environment.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in an area of native bush and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in a native bush environment.

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

Students use a quadrilateral key to answer questions about attributes of quadrilaterals.

Assessment focus: finding details to support the main idea of an informational text, and justifying why they agree or disagree with the main idea presented. The text used is about environmental issues to do with endangered native species.

Students interpret graphs showing the different ways that four people run a race.

Students compare the overall distribution of two graphs and describe their reasons.

Students read an extract from Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

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

This resource is about students continuing linear or quadratic spatial patterns, and giving rules for them.

Task: Match descriptions of kingfishers to their likely diet, and answer questions about food chains. Assessment focus: interpretation of text and pie graphs; conventions of food chains.

Task: Match birds and nests, and explain why the choice was made. Assessment focus: using environmental cues to make inferences.

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

To answer mainly multiple choice questions, students retrieve information and make inferences from a text about Socrates.

Task: Look for the similarities and differences in leaf patterns to answer questions about observations and evidence.