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Students explain why most of a saucepan is made of metal but has a handle made of wood.

Students are asked three multiple-choice questions that relate to tides, the full moon and a solar eclipse.

Task: Answer two questions. Assessment focus: insulation.

Students investigate magnetic repulsion using two magnets and pieces of iron. They are assessed on their understanding of like poles repelling.

Task: Answer 2 multiple choice questions about how we would see Moon from Earth if its orbit changed. Assessment focus: relationship of Sun, Earth, and Moon.

Students answer questions about how a road moves after an earthquake.

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.

Task: Select which picture correctly shows an ice cube in a glass of water and select correct explanation. Assessment focus: density of ice.

Students classify five described changes as either a chemical or a physical change.

Task: select which group pictures of animals belong to. Assessment focus: classification of small animals.

Task: describe how different features of a racing car help it go fast. Assessment focus: technological responses to forces.

Task: Students make predictions about evaporation rates of instances where surface areas are a factor, select which variable is being investigated in both examples and explain their answer. Assessment focus: Using knowledge of surface area to make predictions.

Task: Order wheels according to technological development, then answer questions about advantages and disadvantages of different wheels. Assessment focus: how wheels work.

Task: Select what would happen when like poles of a magnet come together, and explain why a plastic rather than a metal car was used in the investigation. Assessment focus: magnetism.

This assessment task provides students with four statements on recycling. Students circle whether each statement is true or false to determine their understanding of recycling.

Students are required to identify two major weather features linked to cyclones and three examples of damage they can cause.

Students explain three ways native birds could be affected if a stand of native bush found on farmland was removed.

Students explain what the effects of draining a pond would have on the ducks and reeds that live there.

Students answer three multiple-choice questions on the function of the lungs, heart, and kidneys.

Task: Identify which actions would make it easier to attract a paper clip. Assessment focus: magnetism.

Students are given two equations describing the burning of petrol. Students identify each as either complete or incomplete combustion and then describe two disadvantages of incomplete combustion.

Students identify in which order candles will go out and explain their answer. Assessment focus: the role of oxygen in combustion.

Students answer two multiple-choice questions on pH.

Students state if each of four jars containing different substances would sink or float.

Task: complete two multiple choice questions. Assessment focus: respiration of marine mammals and fish.