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Task: Measure 100mL of water into three different pieces of equipment. Weigh the result and calculate the precision of using that piece of equipment. Assessment focus: measuring and evaluating the accuracy of equipment.

Students consider the potential for chemical change when a range of everyday substances are mixed. They use logical reasoning to work out the consequences of four pairs of reactions.

Task: Students fill in a chart to select the best material for making 6 objects, and give reasons for their answers. Assessment focus: properties of materials related to use.

Students use doubling and halving to solve a number of multiplication problems.

Students identify square and cubic numbers mentally in a timed test.

Students place photos of a canoe trip in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Task: Describe on a chart how a duck's features help it to survive, then infer what might happen if these features were changed in some way. Assessment focus: how adaptations aid survival.

Task: Place in order six statements about a series of food chain related events in a beech forest, and justify decisions. Assessment focus: interdependence.

Task: Use features of velociraptors to make inferences about their life style. Assessment focus: using evidence to make inferences.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students find subsequent shapes in a repeated pattern and show how to work out another shape based further on in the pattern.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students describe a functional rule for two spatial patterns.

Students identify different shapes from clues about their properties and then create their own clues to share with a buddy.

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

Students are given an example of ordering adjectives in an advertisement. They use this example to develop a list of adjectives that they order as they create their own advertisement .

Students exploit additive identity property to find missing numbers in addition and subtraction equations.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Task: Draw what happens when sugar is added to a cup of coffee. Assessment focus: dissolving.

Task: Students draw to show their ideas about what happens when a puddle dries up. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Students make choices about which adjectives to use to create a poem about a school of fish. A video clip provides the stimulus for this task.

Students answer a multi choice question and draw and explain their understandings about heat convection in a hot water cylinder. Assessment focus: Using science ideas to explain heat convection.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Assessment focus: ability of students to use both knowledge acquired from the text and their own backgrounds. This task assesses student ability to critically engage with media texts.