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Students make inferences from a poem. SJ-2-4-1993. Text provided.

For this practical task the entire class is involved in an outside activity that looks at camouflage and warning colouration. Students then share their results and answer a number of questions.

Task: Students decide whether six animals are insects or spiders and justify their answers. Assessment focus: Using evidence.

Task: Identify features of 4 animals that live in water, then use this information to decide whether they are fish or not. Assessment focus: classification of fish.

Task: Identify features of 4 animals that live in water, then use this information to decide whether they are fish or not. Assessment focus: classification of fish.

Students calculate the area of a composite shape on a grid.

Students match 3-dimensional shapes shown from different angles.

Students identify what a sheet of paper will look like when it is folded and has shapes cut from it.

Students identify the number of visible faces on 3-dimensional cube models.

Task: use a chart comparing the features of insects and spiders to decide which group a wētā belongs in. Assessment Focus: classification.

Students record the number of different shapes on a tally chart and total each.

Students use number lines to show how to solve whole number addition and subtraction problems.

This practical task requires students to use methods of separation to separate a mixture of salt, sand, and iron filings. Students explain how they did this and the property of the substance that they used.

Students complete a dot plot from a table of data about waiting time in a shop.

Students interpret a bar graph showing the number of different types of shell collected on a beach.

Name the group various animals belong to. Assessment focus: classification.

Students complete 3 multiplication arrays by selecting from given numbers.

Students show how to solve some addition problems.

Task: Use features of velociraptors to make inferences about their life style. Assessment focus: using evidence to make inferences.

Students identify a correct statement about the comparing the overall distribution of two dot plots.

Task: Show the relationship of birds' beaks and feet to the food they eat. Assessment focus: adaptations.

Task: Use close observation of photos and prior knowledge, to write explanations of how the special features of animal tongues help animals survive in their habitats. Assessment focus: structure and function.

Students place decimal numbers in the correct order and position on a number line.

Task: Match the parts of a water cycle to the parts represented in a model of the water cycle and compare how they are the same and different. Assessment focus: interpreting a model.

Students decide which arrow on three spinners is most likely to point to white, and explain their reasons.