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Students list advantages and disadvantages of recycling. The assessment focuses on students' ability to identify impacts on the environment and its inhabitants (including people).

Task: Students suggest ways to stop sand dunes blowing on to farmland, and describe the predicted outcome of their suggestions. Assessment focus: application of knowledge of erosion to a specific situation.

This practical resource requires students to demonstrate some phases of the Moon.

Task: Investigate the length of shadows in relationship to the sun's position. Assessment focus: interpreting a model.

Students are provided with a sequence of diagrams showing the erosion of a waterfall by a river over time. Students complete diagrams for two other waterfall erosion sequences. Each waterfall has different combinations of layers of soft and hard rocks.

On a diagram students indicate how a cliff face might look different in 100 years from now, and explain the probable cause of this.

This practical task requires students to make observations of three different types of soils and record their observations in a chart.

Students read some information about testing the absorbency of different papers. They outline two features that need to be kept the same if the tests were to be fair.

Task: Read a story about a cat and use the information to draw a food chain. Assessment focus: Using information to construct a food chain.

Students are asked to provide reasons for and against having zoos.

Using illustrations from five different beech trees and a key, students are asked to identify which type of beech tree each leaf comes from.

For this practical task students use their knowledge about the properties of gases to explain their observations when they blow up a balloon that is inside a bottle and a balloon that is not inside a bottle.

Students complete a stem and leaf graph about students' test scores and answer questions on mode, spread and range.

Students study a bar graph of golf balls found by two children and answer questions interpreting and comparing the data.

Students follow a story about searching for gold on an island. In the process they answer five questions about landforms.

Students complete number sequences, and identify different rules for sequences that begin with the same numbers.

Task: students write the sense related to various parts of a dog's body. Assessment focus: sensory organs.

Task: Complete a diagram of the length and position of a shadow of a flagpole. Assessment focus: shadows in relation to sun's position.

Using a diagram of a torch, students explain the function of the following parts; cell, metal cone, metal strip, spring, and switch. Students also draw a circuit diagram for the torch.

Students work out which row of coins represents a given amount.

Task: Select the correct words to decribe what is happening to light as it travels through a drop of water. Assessment focus: scientific vocabulary.

Students indicate for each of six different variables those that need to be kept the same for an investigation about dissolving different types of sugar.

For this practical task students follow a plan to determine the effects of a weak acid on different building materials. Students need to put their results into a table and write a conclusion.

For this practical task students complete a table of observations on nine common materials. Students then use their results to group the materials according to similar properties.

This practical task requires students to sort some common items from hardest to softest. Students then explain a test that they used to help determine this.