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Task: Describe what happens to water on black plastic and explain why. Assessment focus: effect of colour on heat retention.

For this task students look at a diagram showing household electrical wires and then answer some questions about these.

Students select from four pictures of laden trucks which is least likely to roll over when cornering, and explain their predictions. This resource assesses students' understanding of centre of gravity.

Task: Describe how energy is transformed in three situations. Assessment focus: energy transformation.

Students classify the type of energy used in seven given examples as being either potential energy, kinetic energy, or radiant energy.

Students are required to write down some relevant questions about the Moon's surface that they would ask an astronaut who has just returned to the Earth from the Moon.

Task: Answer questions about eggs put into water of different densities. Assessment focus: density.

Task: Select which stirrer would feel hottest and explain why, and in which container soup would cool fastest, and explain why. Assessment focus: heat conduction.

Select which materials are transparent, opaque, or translucent. Assessment focus: vocabulary of a material property.

Students classify six common substances as either a solid, liquid, or a gas. Students then group these substances into elements, mixtures, or compounds.

Task: identify features of a spider. Assessment focus: classification of spider.

Task: answer questions about classification of a platypus. Assessment focus: classification features of mammals.

From a collection of familiar objects, students identify all those that can be a source of light. They then explain the term 'source of light'.

Task: Describe changes to iron as it is heated or cooled. Assessment focus: changes to metals as they are heated and cooled.

Students are asked one multiple-choice and one short answer question about fair testing.

Students use circuit diagrams to answer three questions about switches and which lamps will light up.

Task: Answer a multiple choice question and explain the reason for choice. Assessment focus: simple circuits and switches.

Identify from four circuit diagrams which bulbs will light up. Assessment focus: electrical circuits.

Students select which of five compass orientations best show the direction of a magnetic field at four different locations.

Students explain a plastic recycling symbol. This resource assesses an aspect of knowledge helpful for making decisions about recycling.

For this task students understanding of tides is explored. Students are asked to identify where high tides occur when the Moon is in a certain position and how often high tides occur.

Students are provided with two diagrams, one showing the focus of earthquakes in NZ and the other the Earth's plates. Students interpret these diagrams and use them to answer three short questions.

For this task students are asked to explain the cause of weathering of rocks and to identify the hardest and the softest rock in a column of rock.

Students are provided with a weather map for the North Island of NZ and interpret this information to answer three short answer questions.

Students use information on the properties of five different drinks in order to place them correctly into a key.