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Students are required to explain the misleading aspects of two graphs found in newspaper articles.

Task: View photograph to explain how a chiton protects itself in its environment. Assessment focus: identifying features that help to protect an animal in its particular environment.

Students identify common spelling errors, taken from the essential word lists, and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

Students count the number of pairs thrown in a series of throws of three dice to evaluate the long-run relative frequency of getting a pair.

Students answer questions based on multiplication or division by 25, and explain how they arrived at their answer.

This task requires students to estimate some addition problems using any appropriate method.

Students identify which nets can be folded to make an open box shape.

Task: Use written text about farming's contribution to climate change to complete a flow chart, and answer questions about the two texts. Assessment focus: interpreting, using, and comparing different types of text.

Answer questions about a table comparing the energy usage and lifespan of different sorts of lights, and use this information to complete a second table to describe advantages and disadvantages of each. Assessment focus: reading a technical table.

Task: Students read a pH scale to determine how it shows the increasing strength of an acid and a base solution and decide from different pH products what the effect would be on an acidic soil. Assessment focus: interpreting a pH scale.

Task: Students explain six things that would be needed to develop and maintain an offshore island habitat for endangered birds. Assessment focus: identification of needs of endangered birds.

This task requires students to estimate some addition problems using any appropriate method.

Students identify which nets can be folded to make an open box shape.

Students identify spelling errors in common homophones and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

Students read a short article about Black Holes to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This task requires students to estimate some addition problems using any appropriate method.

Students to show how they estimate in some addition problems.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers and compare to the water cycle. Assessment focus: evaporation, the water cycle.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of an article about plants. Junior Journal 27, reading age 7.5-8. Text provided.

Students use tables, graphs, and equations to find the break-even point for two companies who charge for postage according to different rules.

Task: Students draw to show their ideas about what happens when a puddle dries up. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Task: Interpret the information on a chart to provide evidence of the likely cause of oxygen deficiency. Assessment focus: interpreting data.

This task requires students to show how to calculate multiplication problems with multi-digit numbers.

Task: Describe where water goes when washing is drying and from a swimming pool, and discuss factors that affect this process. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers. Assessment focus: evaporation.