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

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

Students use tables, graphs, and equations to find the break-even point for two companies who charge for postage according to different rules.

Students decide which children are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

Students read two letters about personal viewpoints on graffiti and answer questions about the content and style of the letters.

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

Decide if a described investigation is a fair test, and explain the decision. Assessment focus: identifying fair testing.

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.

Students identify fractions that are greater than one, explain their reasoning and identify how far from one some fractions are.

Students compare fractions, identify which is larger, and explain or show their reasoning.

Students compare two fractions, find the larger fraction and show or explain their reasoning.

Students order litre and millilitre capacities from smallest to largest, compare given capacities and explain how they know whether one is larger/smaller or the same.

Students calculate the repair charges of two different garages, graph them, and explain the results.

Students review their knowledge of greenhouse gases and the effects of global warming. They identify areas where they are unsure, as well as things they know.

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.

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

Students identify a correct statement about the comparing the overall distribution of two dot plots.

Students calculate fraction division problems and show their working.

Students state what things will affect how far a cube will travel when flicked in the middle with a ball-point pen, and conduct an experiment to see what happens in practice.

Explain what affects the distance travelled by toy cars, and why they eventually stop. Assessment focus: science explanations using ideas about forces and energy.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about one of our native birds. The task is essentially a literacy task in the context of scientific writing, and can also be accessed from the English Bank.