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Diagrams of four different vertebrate tails are illustrated. Students are required to name an animal that has each type of tail, and then explain how the animal uses this type of tail.

Task: sort pictures into specified groups and identify features that are common to each group. Assessment focus: classification of insects/non-insects.

Students are provided with a picture of a New Zealand native bird. Students select a word from a given list to name each of these bird parts. Students are then required to explain why the bird needs each of these named parts.

Students interpret seven business logos that are each presented with a single short written response question about a design feature.

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

Students identify the solids, liquids, and gases in three short passages.

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

This resource has students comparing four advertisements on holiday camps and identifying the meaning of a slogan.

Students interpret a line graph showing the distance travelled and the time for two car journeys and answer questions about time, distance and speed.

Students complete and interpret a graph to answer questions about time, distance and speed.

This practical task requires students to make observations and draw diagrams about diffusion that occurs when food colouring is added to water.

Task: Identify direction of currents and explain reason for pattern. Assessment focus: convection patterns.

Using a diagram of a crab, students explain some of the crab's adaptations.

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

This practical task requires students to test a number of circuits and to give reasons why some of the circuits do not work while others do. Students also look at other circuits and explain what happens to the brightness of the bulb.

Students interpret and answer questions from a calendar showing one month of the year.

Task: Fill in a chart to identify the damage caused by various animal pests. Assessment focus: specific contextual knowledge about animal pests.

For this practical students observe some activities which illustrate melting and dissolving. They write sentences about what they observe and then write what they think melting and dissolving mean.

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.

Students order given temperatures from lowest to highest.

This task requires students to answer questions about a stem-and-leaf graph of the lengths of seventeen frogs.

Students study a table of test results percentages for a range of subjects. Students answer questions involving mean, median, mode and range.

Students are given a partially completed table which details materials which are used as either conductors or insulators of heat. Students complete the table by indicating whether the materials conduct or insulate heat or give an example of its use.

Students answer questions about distance, speed and time, and identify an expression that describes the distance (kilometres) from the starting point in terms of time (minutes).

Students interpret data presented in raw form to answer questions, calculate a percentage, and calculate a variety of data measures.