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For this practical task, students join 'dominos'. They match an animal feature on the initial 'domino' with the appropriate animal picture on the next 'domino'.

Task: Select the corect term for stored energy, identify the type of stored energy of three examples, and describe energy transformations. Assessment focus: potential energy.

Students identify and give rules for when numbers are divisible by three or by nine.

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

Students read two letters about personal viewpoints on graffiti and answer questions about the content and style of the letters.

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 are asked to study a bar graph of ways to travel to school and write down five things that are wrong with the way the graph is set up.

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

Students calculate the interior and exterior angles of a regular octagon and explain their calculations.

In this practical task, students use their understanding of the link between capacity and volume to make cardboard containers that hold 250ml and 500ml of water.

Students are provided with a graph of the heating curve for octane. Students use this to answer questions about state, temperatures, and changes of state.

Task: Interpret data from tables. Assessment focus: data interpretation.

Task: use information and observation skills to identify whether pictures of fish are either bony fish or sharks. Assessment focus: classification, interpreting a Venn diagram.

This resource assesses knowledge of speaking techniques and students answer questions on the speech opening, control of audience, speech notes, and closing of speech.

Students view an illustration and read a poem entitled 'The Dinosaur Climber's Kit' and then answer retrieval and inferential questions. An awareness of rhyme is explored. SJ-2-3-1994. Text provided.

Task: identify two features that enable a sea lion to live in water. Assessment focus: adaptations.

Students read a poem, 'My Other Jandal', then answer inferential questions. The poem is provided with this resource. SJ-2-4-1994. Text not provided.

A brief picture story is presented about missed opportunities. Students interpret the actions of the figures in the story, and infer the subsequent consequences.

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 explain who is most likely to win a game based on spinners, and how the game could be made fair.

Students construct three different sized parachutes from plastic bags. They then carry out a fair test to see which sized parachute is the most effective. Students answer questions about fair tests, collect and record their results, and make a conclusion.

Notes on reproduction in some animals have been provided, and students are asked to give reasons for the different processes.

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: 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.