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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.

Students identify the changes of state that are occurring in a diagram showing the separation of fresh water from seawater.

Students are given the formula of two different types of chlorophyll. Students name all the elements present, and how the number of atoms differs between the chlorophylls.

Students are given some information about four gases. They use this information and a key to identify the four gases.

Students answer questions about genotype and phenotype in cats, and explain a breeding result for the genetic characteristic 'taillessness'.

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

This task is about describing the behaviour of light rays.

Task: Use a diagram to match shadows to a time of day. Assessment focus: shadows.

Task: Identify the position of the sun and the time of day when the shadows shown is formed. Assessment focus: shadows.

Task: Answer questions about rowing. Assessment focus: levers.

Students carry out a simple experiment with static electricity and then explain their findings.

Students carry out a simple experiment to illustrate refraction. They then explain why this happened.

In this practical task students investigate the effect of temperature on viscosity. Students describe and explain what has happened.

Students identify the variables to be kept constant, and the variable to be different, when they plan a fair test to show if green plants need light to grow.

Task: choose 3 features of a mosquito and say how they help it survive. Assessment focus: adaptations for survival.

Task: Select the most suitable thermometer to use for different purposes and answer two questions about scale. Assessment focus: making measurements decisions.

Task: Answer a multiple choice question about the material attracted to magnets, select which magnet of four is strongest, and give a reason for choice. Assessment focus: magnetism.

Students answer three questions about information found on a bottle of bleach.