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Students select the correct fraction of toys to click and drag into a toy box.

Students select the correct fraction of fruits to click and drag into a bowl.

Students listen to a folktale then recall information from it by answering multiple-choice questions.

Students explain two things a baby animal needs from its mother. Students then describe how a human changes as it grows up and becomes an adult.

Task: students explain links between a bird's feet and its lifestyle.

This NEMP task assesses knowledge about plants and animals.

Students complete a cloze passage with 24 blanks on insects. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

The context of this cloze task is a story about a hungry weasel. Students generate appropriate words to create well-formed sentences.

Task: Choose images to enhance a science text about an adaptation of kererū, compare the messages of images, and reflect on the role of illustrations in science texts. Assessment focus: using and interpreting images in science texts.

Task: Students decide whether four dinosaurs are meat-eaters or plant-eaters, and justify their answers. A list of features of each group is provided. It may be completed individually or as a group assessment. Assessment focus: using evidence.

Task: Make observations from a photograph, identify potential environmental problems giving reasons, decide which problem is the most important, and give reasons for the choice. Assessment focus: (1) observation, and (2) identifying and prioritising cause and effect relationships.

Task: Students apply both their knowledge of the functions of roots and information from a model to explain why care is needed when transplanting trees. Assessment focus: interpreting diagrams.

Task: Match animal pests to the harm they cause, and use information about pest control. Assessment focus: animal pests and their control.

For this task students are asked to draw the eyes, fins, gills, and mouth onto an outline of a fish. Students then explain the function of each of these parts of the fish (including scales and the tail).

Reading text to find information about how scientists work. Assessment focus: interpreting information about how scientists work.

Students select the correct fraction of toys to click and drag into a suitcase.

Task: Sort cards to identify how four items of rubbish will impact on the beach, plants and animals that are found there, and humans. They then select items to remove and leave, and justify their decisions. Assessment focus: impact of materials on the environment.

Task: Use features of velociraptors to make inferences about their life style. Assessment focus: using evidence to make inferences.

Students identify statements of fact from a range of statements.

Students select the correct fraction of vegetables to click and drag into a soup pot.

Students prepare a 2 to 3 minute speech to inform, persuade, or entertain. A list of topics suitable for Year 7/8 students is provided. Assessment guides A and B are suitable for this task.

Students convert units of weight - grams and kilograms - to answer questions a range of food items.

In this practical task students put fractions of different items bought at a school fair onto a shopping bag.

Students work out and count the different meal combinations available as shown in a tree diagram.

Students select from 'less than', 'equal to', and 'greater than' to complete word equations about food amounts.