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Answer questions about rubbish picked up on a beach, and suggest reasons why plastic is the most common rubbish.

Answer questions about a table comparing the energy usage and lifespan of different sorts of lights, and use this information to complete a second table to describe advantages and disadvantages of each. Assessment focus: reading a technical table.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of cake.

Task: Students answer questions about a soil food web. Assessment focus: reading a food web, systems thinking.

Task: Decide what information can or cannot be inferred from food chain diagrams. Assessment focus: reading food chains

Task: Look for the similarities and differences in leaf patterns to answer questions about observations and evidence.

Student select shapes that are similar but not squares and explain what makes them squares or not.

Students read an article and are assessed on their ability to retrieve information and to make inferences in response to two questions about geologists.

The native bird the kakapo is the subject of this listening comprehension assessment. SJ-2-3-1992. Text not provided.

Task: Identify from an experiment the preferred living conditions of slaters, and use a fact file to suggest reasons why. Assessment focus: interpreting results of an investigation.

Students solve addition story problems involving numbers of different magnitude to explore their place value understanding.

Students show that they can picture the whole shape when given a fractional part.

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

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

Task: Students play a tag game that simulates the relationships between elements within a waterway and discuss how different scenarios impact on the populations living there. Assessment focus: changes within a habitat affect everything living there.

Students add and subtract fractions to work out fractions of food.

Task: Look for similarities and differences in fruit to answer questions about observation and evidence.

Task: Identify how the kererū's adaptations contribute to its interactions with its ecosystem, and how knowing about kererū's' adaptations can benefit both it and people. Assessment focus: using understandings about adaptations to consider actions affecting the kererū.

Students use fractions as operators to find unit fractions of a given whole number.

Task: Identify how features/adaptations of a starfish help it survive, and decide whether the amount of evidence from scientists' observations supports or does not support their theory/inference. Assessment focus: using observations as evidence to inform theories.

Task: Make careful observations of objects in a picture to assess the size of one of the objects.

Task: Dictate what is observed from viewing a video clip of a monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis (answering a specific question), and sequence some photographs in the correct order. Assessment focus: observing and describing.

Task: students investigate the rolling distance of marbles on different surfaces. Assessment focus: processing information to answer a question.

Students compare drawings of a healthy and unhealthy plant, collect data, and decide which data distinguishes them. This is a mathematics/science resource.