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Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of cake.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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: 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.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers and compare to the water cycle. Assessment focus: evaporation, the water cycle.

This task is about sorting shapes into different groups.

This resource is a listening task with an assessment focus on identifying information from a weekly weather and snow report.