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Students solve word problems which require division by 10, 100 or 1000.

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.

This task requires students to calculate the size of angles using their knowledge of angles and parallel lines: alternate angles, corresponding angles and co-interior angles. Understanding of adjacent angles on a straight line is also required.

Students find and write the numbers to complete simple equations that add to 10.

Students identify the largest weight of cuts of meat, and convert kilograms into grams.

Students add up amounts of money including dollars and cents.

Task: Complete a graph from data in a table, and answer two questions. Assessment focus: speed and stopping.

Task: Use data in a table to construct a graph and answer questions about the patterns. Assessment focus: interpreting tables and graphs.

Students answer five questions interpreting data on temperature decrease in three different types of cups.

Three key variables related to high altitude flight are displayed graphically. Students use the information provided to answer a series of questions about flight.

Students answer a multiple choice question about what happens when a magnetised object is cut in half, and then draw the lines of the magnetic field around two magnets.

Students read a map of a new school, and answer questions about the placement of some trees. They are assessed on their ability to suggest the trees' impact on the school environment.

Using information about comets, students label a diagram of a comet and draw the orbit of a comet and the position of the comet in two places in its orbit.

Students are provided with a star map showing the path of comet Haley-Bopp 1997. Students use this map to answer three questions.

Students interpret a weather map to answer three multiple-choice questions on information it contains.

Students are provided with a graph showing the average rainfall and temperatures for Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Perth. Students interpret this graph to answer a number of questions.

Students are provided with a map of NZ showing the average annual rainfall in different areas. Students interpret this information to answer three short answer questions, and then construct a bar graph that shows the rainfall for nine North Island locations.

Students are given diagrams representing the three states of matter. Students answer four questions relating to these.

Students use a diagram that shows a food web to answer five questions about the information within the food web.

Students use a key to classify and describe a number of the illustrated insects and spiders.

Task: Answer two questions about setting up a fair test and another about insulating houses. Assessment focus: controlling variables.

Task: Make a sound gun and use it to investigate what happens to a candle when the end of the sound gun is tapped. Assessment focus: sound waves.

Task: Students answer questions about what will make mountain bike riders go faster. Assessment focus: Air resistance.

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.