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Task: Plan a fair test to see if adding salt water to water affects how long it takes to freeze. Assessment focus: managing variables.

Students outline a test they could do to show if a substance is a metal or not.

Task: Answer questions about the relationship between mass and stretch. Assessment focus: graph interpretation.

Task: Answer questions about relationships between mass and stretch. Assessment focus: identifying patterns in data.

Information on particle size and boiling point is provided for three alcohols. Students use this to place these substances in order of particle size and increasing boiling point.

Students calculate the distance travelled by the tips of the hands on a clock, and calculate the speed of one of the tips.

Students solve multiplication problems involving negative numbers, finding the biggest and the smallest products.

Students are asked to explain how a stone from the top of a mountain could become sand on a beach. Students then identify the most likely way stones 'move' from the tops of mountains to the coast.

This resource requires students to process information on an earthquake. This entails calculating the distance that the recording stations are from an earthquake's epicentre, locating the epicentre, calculating the magnitude, and answering general questions on earthquakes.

Students calculate and evaluate powers of whole numbers.

Students choose the best type of graph for a selection of sets of data.

Students decide on the best sample of students for a given survey and answer a multiple choice question. They also answer a question on sample size for best accuracy.

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

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

Students solve number problems involving prices which include and exclude GST.

Students read statements from a debate then provide nine short written answers to demonstrate their understanding of common debating techniques.

This oral language resource has students matching debating terms and their definitions with extracts from a debate.

Students are given an outline of a fair test. They are asked to identify the aim, variables to be controlled, how to judge the results, and an aspect of replication.

Students are given an experimental setup of heating water with a burning peanut and are asked how they could change this in three ways to get a greater temperature increase. Students are also asked to give two important experimental conditions that should remain the same if the experiment was repeated.

Students label six diagrams as an element, compound, or mixture.

To answer mainly multiple choice questions, students retrieve information and make inferences from a text about Socrates.

Task: Answer questions about energy transformations of a yoyo. Assessment focus: energy transformations.

Task: Describe how the light rays move through a glass prism.

Students are provided with two star maps as seen from Wellington at two different times of the year. Students are asked to explain why the stars on the map appear in different parts of the sky depending on the time of the year.

Using the principles of fair testing, students identify four factors that could affect the time it takes for electric jugs to boil water.