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Students read a poem then make inferences using the written and the visual texts. SJ-4-2-1994. Text provided.

Students view an illustration and read a poem entitled 'The Dinosaur Climber's Kit' and then answer retrieval and inferential questions. An awareness of rhyme is explored. SJ-2-3-1994. Text provided.

Students read a poster about railway crossing safety to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students read the description of a number of surveys and explain why the sample is biased.

Students conduct a practical, statistical investigation. They decide on a question, categories, conduct the survey, tally and graph the results on a bar graph.

Students read a poem about air to answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-2-1999. Text provided.

Task: Order wheels according to technological development, then answer questions about advantages and disadvantages of different wheels. Assessment focus: how wheels work.

Without looking, and by feeling a range of 3-dimensional objects, students describe physical features of each object.

Students work out the height, width and length of gift packets.

Students use a table of contents from a book about deserts to answer questions.

Students take an entry from a library catalogue and answer questions about the various features of the catalogue entry.

Students use a diagram of, and information about a measuring cup (a cone) to calculate and answer questions about volume.

Students break amounts into a number of equal sized groups.

Using a page from a dictionary, this resource assesses students' dictionary skills through a series of short answer and selected response questions.

Students use a calendar of one month of the year to assist them in making time calculations.

Students explore the language of personification and metaphor in the poem called 'Wash day for the clouds'. The questions require the students to think about the metaphors and personification. Text provided.

Students read a short text about ladybirds to answer retrieval and inferential questions. Text provided.

Students are asked to work out the perimeter of different polygon shapes.

Students use a circuit diagram to answer questions about how removing bulbs affects the other bulbs in the circuit. Assessment focus: Electrical circuits

Task: multiple choice questions and interpreting a diagram. Assessment focus: phases of the moon.

Students use a diagram of a cutting showing exposed rock layers to answer questions about their formation, age, and geological history.

For this practical task students investigate and report on what they noticed about a model river and how different sized materials are moved by the water.

Students outline four ways of improving a given plan for an investigation to make it a fair test.

Task: Students place in order four beakers of copper sulphate solution from most to least concentrated. They then explain what would happen if two beakers were put together, and explain the term "concentration". Assessment focus: solutions.

Students are provided with a fact file on the tuatara. Students answer four questions that are based on information contained in the fact file.