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Task: Identify colours and surfaces that keep things cool. Assessment focus: heat absorption.

Task: Plan a fair test to see which of two solar showers of different colours heats up more. Assessment focus: controlling variables.

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

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 draw the bird's-eye view of each of three buildings that are pictured.

In this practical task, students cut out triangles and rectangles to make three different nets for a triangular prism.

Students identify what shapes look like when rotated through half and quarter turns.

Students explain how the parts of a torch help it work.

Students use given shapes to cover grids in tessellating patterns.

In this practical task, students make different shapes with four multi-link cubes, draw them, identify the smallest perimeter, and explain what happens to the area.

Students answer four questions on echoes and sound insulation.

Student solve addition problems where the missing value is located in different positions. This may mean that students transform the problem into a subtraction one. Students reflect on the easiest and hardest problems, and explain their choice.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to infer.

Task: Match definitions to terms about light rays. Assessment focus: scientific vocabulary.

Task: Answer two questions. Assessment focus: insulation.

This practical task is about heat absorption. From a given list students choose the equipment they would use to heat cold tap water as much as possible. Students complete the investigation, explain why each piece of equipment was selected, and record their results.

Students use circuit diagrams to answer three questions about switches and which lamps will light up.

Task: explain the effect of temperature on metal and wood. Assessment focus: the effect of heat on different materials.

Students read a play (retold from a traditional Persian folktale) about the interactions at a market place in old Baghdad. They then use evidence from the text and their background knowledge to complete the task. Assessment focus: evaluating. SJ-4-2-2009. Text not provided.

Students interpret two cartoon-style drawings of the enhanced greenhouse effect and write a short description of the artist’s message, as they see this.

Task: Identify the colours on a taxi sitting under a red streetlight. Assessment focus: Coloured light can be produced by blocking some parts of the spectrum.

Students draw shapes to show how the perimeter increases and decreases for different shapes of the same area size.

Task: Match each part of a torch to its name, identify whether the torch in the diagram is on or off and provide evidence for opinion, and suggest ways to make the torchlight brighter. Assessment focus: parts of a torch and the function of some of these parts.

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.

For this practical students use provided definitions to classify 12 objects as either transparent, translucent, or opaque.