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Task: Decide what information can or cannot be inferred from food chain diagrams. Assessment focus: reading food chains

Students use given information to solve a problem using a Venn diagram.

Task: Students give oral explanations about how the features of a weta or a mallard duck help it survive in its environment. Peer assessment sheets are included. Assessment focus: structure and function.

Students answer maths problems involving multiplication and show their strategies.

Students respond to and give directions about a simple path on a map involving right or left turns.

Students draw shapes of given areas, and choose from the bigger area, explaining their reasoning.

Task: Create, use and identify ‘rules’ based on observable and/or measurable physical properties of common plastics. Assessment focus: classifying & identifying.

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.

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.

Students identify fractions that are greater than a half and explain their reasoning. They also identify how far from half some fractions are and name a fraction closer to half than one given.

Answer questions about rubbish picked up on a beach, and suggest reasons why plastic is the most common rubbish.

Students plan how to do a statistical investigation about a question that has been posed, and think about how they will collect their data.

Task: explain the effect of temperature on metal and wood. Assessment focus: the effect of heat on different materials.

Decide if a described investigation is a fair test, and explain the decision. Assessment focus: identifying fair testing.

Students write number sentences for story problems, and create story problems from number sentences.

Students identify square and cubic numbers mentally in a timed test.

Task: Describe on a chart how a duck's features help it to survive, then infer what might happen if these features were changed in some way. Assessment focus: how adaptations aid survival.

Students interpret time frames and slope from a graph showing the area of a painted wall over time.

Task: Identify how features/adaptations of a starfish help it survive, and decide whether the amount of evidence from scientists' observations supports or does not support their theory/inference. Assessment focus: using observations as evidence to inform theories.

Students identify fractions that are greater than one, explain their reasoning and identify how far from one some fractions are.

Students to apply their understanding of basic wave behaviour at the sea shore to make an inference about waves in a different but analogous context: to predict where the worst damage might occur in an earthquake.

Students write decimal fractions as percentages.

Students compare the overall distribution of two graphs and describe their reasons.

Task: Interpret a flowchart and text to identify in what ways goats are pests. Assessment focus: identifying ways in which goats are pests and how they are controlled.

Students answer questions about fractions of different wholes (units).