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

Task: Decide which of two graphs e.g., tally chart, pictograph, bar graph is represented by a picture and explain how the graph/s are interpreted.

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

Task: Students draw a picture of a burning candle to show changes that occur. Assessment focus: representing the way particles behave when material undergoes temporary and permanent changes.

Assessment focus: ability to de-construct and interpret messages in advertising, so that students can understand meaning-making processes in the construction of imagery.

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.

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: Predict which of three balls dropped from different heights will squash most, explain why, and design an investigation to test prediction. Assessment focus: acceleration and fair testing.

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

A recount about a whale watch is the context for comprehension questions that require making inferences. The recount is reproduced in the resource. SJ-1-1-1998. Text provided.

Students find fractions of numbers of different farm animals and put them in their simplest form.

Students respond to and give directions about a simple path on a map involving right or left turns.

Students review their knowledge of greenhouse gases and the effects of global warming. They identify areas where they are unsure, as well as things they know.

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.

Choose which toy vehicle will roll further, and explain why. The two vehicles are set up under different conditions (ramps at different slopes, rolling onto different surfaces at the bottom). Assessment focus: science explanations using ideas about forces and energy.

Students answer questions involving finding how many of one fraction goes into another fraction.

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

Students decide which children are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

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

Task: Explain the science messages communicated in a cartoon. Assessment focus: decomposition and photosynthesis.

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.

Task: Sort cards to identify how four items of rubbish will impact on the beach, plants and animals that are found there, and humans. They then select items to remove and leave, and justify their decisions. Assessment focus: impact of materials on the environment.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem. It assesses a student's ability to use evidence to predict what it could be describing. SJ-2-4-1994. Text provided.

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

Students find the unknown for a range of equations that require number property knowledge and understanding of relational thinking.