Task: Match simple machines to items, select length of bar to lift a rock, and draw how to set up bar and a block of wood to lift the rock. Assessment focus: levers.
This assessment task requires students to graph data on the size of the ozone layer over Antarctica. Students then answer four short questions relating to the data and their graph.
Students interpret a map showing concentrations of ozone in the atmosphere and then answer some questions about the ozone issue. This resource assesses the ability to interpret data, and also knowledge of the ozone layer and associated issues.
Students plot the positions for three different stars at three different times during the evening. Students use this information to answer questions about star movement around the South Celestial Pole.
This resource requires students to construct a graph on data for temperature and depth below the Earth's crust. Students then answer four questions about this.
For this practical task students are assessed on their understanding of the life cycle of a butterfly by putting pictures (of eggs, caterpillar, pupa, emerging butterfly, and butterfly) into the correct sequential order and answering some questions.
Students explain the terms endangered and extinct. Students give two examples of animals that are endangered and give reasons for why these animal numbers have declined.
In this practical task, students estimate, and then measure, the weight of two objects using a number of multi-link cubes, a balance scale and weights.
Students are provided with a graph of the heating curve for octane. Students use this to answer questions about state, temperatures, and changes of state.