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Task: Select which state of water applies to a list of places where water can be found. Assessment focus: states of water.

The focus of this resource is the use of simple conjunctions. Students decide which conjunction to use to combine two ideas to make one sentence.

Using a diagram of a regular hexagon, students calculate its interior and exterior angles.

Students are provided with information about the structure of a haiku poem. They identify the syllables in another haiku poem, and then write their own.

Students construct and label a line graph of time spent on Maths and Science homework, and answer questions interpreting the data.

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

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

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 identify a correct statement about the overall distribution of a graph and explain their reasoning.

Task: Students interpret a graph to answer questions, and use background knowledge to justify their responses. Assessment focus: control of body temperature in different types of animals.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

Task: Students answer questions about a Southern Ocean food web. Assessment focus: interpreting food webs.

Students read an article on starfish and find factual information to complete a retrieval chart and answer comprehension questions. SJ-1-2-1999. Text not provided.

Students identify the most likely sequence of tosses of a fair coin and explain their reasons.

Students order litre and millilitre capacities from smallest to largest, compare given capacities and explain how they know whether one is larger/smaller or the same.

Students read a one-page article on DNA testing and answer four selected response questions about the aim and purpose of the article.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

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.

This practical task requires students to carry out three tests to find out if each element is a metal or non-metal.

Students decide if a graph is suitable to display category data and explain the reasons.

Students categorise statements according to whether they are evidence or inferences. They make inferences about moa, supporting them with evidence. Assessment focus: thinking in scientific ways.

Task: Look at the arrangement of fibres for four different paper towels, arrange an appropriate sequence of instructions, carry out the instructions and then communicate the data in an appropriate graph that will help answer the question. Different elements of the nature of science are embedded throughout the tasks. Assessment focus: planning and carrying out a fair test, using evidence to answer a question.

Task: Answer questions about frog's skin adaptations, and use this information to think about consequences of chytrid fungus for Archey's frogs. Assessment focus: using information to think about management of native endangered species.

Task: students interpret diagrams to consider the effects of tidal changes on rock pools. Assessment focus: relationship of living things with their physical environment.

After reading the story, students recall the sequence and identify some details. To do this, students are given a list of words to select from. Students justify their inferences based on the evidence in the written and visual texts.