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Students use sticks to continue given patterns, and identify the number of sticks needed to make the new shapes in the pattern

Task: Students fill in a chart to select the best material for making 6 objects, and give reasons for their answers. Assessment focus: properties of materials related to use.

Students identify true and false statements, and provide a description of the most important features of a time series graph.

Students identify fractions that are greater than one, explain their reasoning and identify how far from one some fractions are.

Students compare fractions, identify which is larger, and explain or show their reasoning.

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

Describe methods for speeding up and slowing down melting of an ice cube using one of three provided objects, and explain why the methods would work. Assessment focus: planning an investigation.

Decide whether the photographed animals are reptiles or not, and justify responses. (A fact file giving the features of reptiles is given.) Answer a question about why scientists have an agreed way of grouping living things. Assessment focus: using science-based classifications.

Task: Using statements from four people decide and justify whether or not each person supports wind farms. Identify which person has a misconception about wind farms, giving a reason. Assessment focus: identifying different perspectives.

Students identify fractions that are greater than a half and explain their reasoning. They also identify how far from half some fractions are and name a fraction closer to half than one given.

Task: Answer two questions about melting and two questions about dissolving. Assessment focus: describe and explain melting and dissolving.

Students combine their observations with some information provided to complete a story about what might have happened in the photograph.

Task: Match insects to their adaptations for protection against enemies, and infer two ways stick insects are adapted for their protection against predators. Assessment focus: using observations to make suggestions about survival methods.

Explain what affects the distance travelled by toy cars, and why they eventually stop. Assessment focus: science explanations using ideas about forces and energy.

Students use a quadrilateral key to answer questions about attributes of quadrilaterals.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to find the main idea of a transactional text about a Māori naturalist/scientist. Students are asked to read a text, identify the main idea from three choices provided, and then justify why they think their choice is right.

Task: Complete a diagram of part of the water cycle and answer a question about rain. Assessment focus: Question a) – the water cycle and conventions of diagrams; question b) – evaporation of a solution.

Students interpret two cartoon-style drawings of the enhanced greenhouse effect and write a short description of the artist’s message, as they see this.

Task: Describe and compare some physical properties of plastic objects and identify the properties scientists might use for classifying materials. Assessment focus: classifying using physical properties.

Task: Use understandings about heat energy and insulation to describe how adaptations help Emperor penguins survive in Antarctica. Assessment focus: adaptations for keeping warm in cold conditions.

Students to show how to calculate problems that involve rates and ratios.

Students conduct a statistical investigation into the sentence length of different types of books by making and comparing dot plots.

Students identify a correct statement about the overall distribution of a graph and explain their reasoning.

Students research and take notes in preparation for writing a biography of a famous New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.

Students research and write a biographical recount on the life of a well-known New Zealander. Supports for this process and formative assessment points are given.