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Task: use a key to identify which major group 4 plants belong to. Assessment focus: using a key to classify plants.

Students use a key to classify and describe a number of the illustrated insects and spiders.

Task: Students use observation and a key to identify native plants. Assessment focus: Using a classification key.

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

Task: use information and observation skills to identify whether pictures of fish are either bony fish or sharks. Assessment focus: classification, interpreting a Venn diagram.

Task: Identify the features of three animals, name their classification group, and answer two questions comparing features of the groups. Assessment focus: classification of animals.

Students are given four pictures, and are asked to draw a circle around the picture that is not a bird, and then give a reason for their choice. Similarly, they circle animals that are not mammals, fish, and molluscs.

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.

For this NEMP task students use a key to name five small animals. They answer a question about the gas animals need to survive.

Task: identify micro-organisms. Assessment focus: using an identification key

Task: use a key to identify a fish, then complete a key to identify shellfish. Assessment focus: Interpreting representations - classification keys.

This practical task assesses students' understanding of the different features of the vertebrate groups. Students need to identify the larger group that their animal card belongs too, then work with other students with the same group to write down all the features of that group.

Task: Students decide whether six animals are insects or spiders and justify their answers. Assessment focus: Using evidence.