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Students use a diagram showing similar and dissimilar characteristics of reptiles, birds, and mammals, to answer questions regarding these features.

Task: Describe and compare some physical properties of plastic objects and identify the properties scientists might use for classifying materials. Assessment focus: classifying using physical properties.

For this practical task students are given a variety of objects which they are required to make observations on by using their senses.

Students work out the area of different shapes.

Students write the bearing and distance of a number of objects on a radar screen.

The assessment focus is on an informative speech to a small group about a famous historical person. Student directions, a checklist, and scoring guides are included.

The assessment focus is on an informative speech to a small group about a famous person. Student directions, a checklist, and scoring guides are included.

Students identify the angle of different objects and movements.

Students calculate fractions of a given number of marbles.

Students read a poem and its illustrations to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

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

Task: Complete a table to show how energy is transformed in eight objects and describe the energy transformations in two others. Assessment focus: energy transformation.

Students construct and label a pie graph of favourite drinks from data in a table. They also interpret results involving proportions.

Students predict the outcome of throwing five dice and confirm their predictions by conducting an experiment and calculating probabilities. After discussing how to get better estimates, they pool their results with others to get a more accurate estimate of how good their predictions were.

Using shapes on grids, students translate points by different vectors.

A report about a topic of local, national, or international interest is prepared. The assessment focus is on opinions and information from the media. ARB scoring guides A and B are suitable for this task.

A student speaks to another student or a small group about a news article. Two scoring guides are provided.

Students choose the correct trigonometric ratio which would be used to calculate a missing length in two practical problems.

Students complete a picture-graph from a chart of data about the number of sunny days recorded over six months with a scale.

Using data given in a table, students are required to construct a double line graph on the axes provided.

The assessment context is a prepared speech of introduction. The time limit is 1 minute and a content checklist is provided. Assessment guides B and C are suitable for this task.

Students are asked to construct and label a line graph of words typed per minute by two students for each day of the week. Data is provided in a frequency table.

Task: Look for the similarities and differences in how students draw graphs to display information.

This task assesses a student's ability to persuade an audience to agree with their opinion. Some speech topics and a checklist are provided.

This task assesses a formal debate. A list of general topics is provided. For topics on school and teenage life, see resources Debating I and Debating II. ARB scoring guides D, E and F are suitable for this task.