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For this practical task students are required to follow, by physically stepping them out, a set of compass directions.

Students compare the overall distribution of two dot plots and describe their reasons.

Task: Use a diagram and fact file to answer questions about sharks' fins. Assessment focus: adaptations of sharks to facilitate movement in water.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify and justify evidence used to visualise and make inferences about a character and setting.

Students find missing numbers to complete addition, subtraction and multiplication number patterns.

Task: Answer two questions about melting and two questions about dissolving. Assessment focus: describe and explain melting and dissolving.

Answer questions about a table comparing the energy usage and lifespan of different sorts of lights, and use this information to complete a second table to describe advantages and disadvantages of each. Assessment focus: reading a technical table.

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: Students answer questions about a soil food web. Assessment focus: reading a food web, systems thinking.

Task: Describe how features of the New Zealand long-tailed bat help it to survive. Assessment focus: identifying features for survival.

Task: describe how different features of a racing car help it go fast. Assessment focus: technological responses to forces.

Students formulate questions about glaciers and climate change to show awareness that informed opinions are based on inter-related aspects of evidence rather than individual instances.

Task: Use understandings about heat energy and insulation to describe how adaptations help Emperor penguins survive in Antarctica. Assessment focus: adaptations for keeping warm in cold conditions.

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

Students use evidence in a text to make inferences about a character's feelings. They analyse these within scaffolding activities, synthesising their thinking to suggest the author's message.

Students use a quadrilateral key to answer questions about attributes of quadrilaterals.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to visualise and infer. SJ-3-3-1989. Text not provided.

Students identify a correct statement about the comparing the overall distribution of two dot plots.

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

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

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.

Task: Demonstrate understanding of the pupil reflex of the eye, and apply this to answering questions about sunglasses safety. Extension questions probe understanding of who decides on and applies safety standards. Assessment focus: effect of UV light on the eyes and how it can be mediated by simple sunglasses technology.

Students read an article on the marathon. They then answer a range of comprehension and vocabulary questions.

Students identify the most likely combination of throws for a fair coin, and explain their reasons.

Students answer questions that involve time calculations.