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Students prepare a 2 to 3 minute speech, to inform, persuade, or entertain. Topics suitable for primary students are provided. Assessment guides B and C are suitable for this task.

Students explain adaptations of kangaroos and horses to protect their young.

A bar graph showing the percentage of endangered species threatened by predation, competition, and/or habitat loss is given. Students use this graph to answer questions and explain the terms; predation, competition, and habitat loss.

Using a diagram of a crab, students explain some of the crab's adaptations.

Task: students answer questions about features of the fennec fox. Assessment focus: adaptations.

This resource is for the assessment of team debating at intermediate school. A selection of topics are provided. Oral Language Assessment Guides - Speaking E and G are suitable for this task.

Students interpret a graph of a child's feelings for different times and activities during a day.

In this practical task students drag fractions of different fish onto the body of a shark.

In this task students compare two fractions involving items of food, choosing either the larger or smaller.

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

For this practical task students write a plan to find out if a microwave has a 'hot spot'. Students carry out their plan, collect, and interpret results.

In this NEMP task students look at photos to describe similar and different environmental features of the moon, the Earth, Mars and the sun. Assessment focus: The solar system. In the original NEMP task the assessor gave oral instructions, read the questions and wrote the answers for each student.

A school journal article on living in a Japanese home is the context for this assessment that focuses on locating information and general comprehension. SJ-1-3-1994. Text provided.

Students read a poem, retrieve information, and then use this information to make inferences. The text used is shown into the resource. It can also be located in School Journal, Part 2, No. 1, 1999. SJ-2-1-1999. Text provided.

Students read a short narrative recount and indicate each place in which a paragraph break is needed.

Students use an index page from a book on New Zealand to answer six questions.

For this NEMP task students look at a cornflakes package, and answer questions about the information shown.

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

Task: Answer questions about a planned wildlife reserve. Assessment focus: interdependence of animals with their habitat.

For this practical task students are assessed on their understanding of the life cycle of a butterfly by putting pictures (of eggs, caterpillar, pupa, emerging butterfly, and butterfly) into the correct sequential order and answering some questions.

Students are provided with a fact file on the tuatara. Students answer four questions that are based on information contained in the fact file.

Students explain the terms endangered and extinct. Students give two examples of animals that are endangered and give reasons for why these animal numbers have declined.

Students use pictures of different types of parakeets to identify distinguishing features. NOTE: This resource needs to be used in colour.

Without looking, and by feeling a range of 3-dimensional objects, students describe physical features of each object.

Students compare drawings of a healthy and unhealthy plant and decide which quantitative and/or qualitative data distinguishes them. This is a mathematics/science resource.