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Students complete a diagram of a geyser by writing the correct labels from a given selection. Students are also required to answer what causes the water to heat up.

For this task students are provided with a diagram showing the landmasses that originally made up Gondwanaland. Students are required to identify and use their own knowledge to indicate the evidence which indicates that these landmasses were once joined together.

Task: Select whether statements about the Moon are true or false. Assessment focus: the Moon.

The assessment focus is on students' abilities to identify the details in a text that support a given, main idea.

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.

Task: Students play a card game to construct a waterways relationships web. Assessment focus: relationships within a waterways ecosystem.

Task: Students match parts of statements about how Joan Wiffen worked like a scientist, and identify what skills or experiences helped her find fossils. Assessment focus: interpreting information about how scientists work.

Students read an article on starfish and find factual information to complete a retrieval chart and answer comprehension questions. SJ-1-2-1999. Text not provided.

Students answer one question about diet given the type of beak that birds have. Students are also asked about how scientists might investigate information about moa.

Students use addition and subtraction to solve story problems and show their equations.

Students select the most appropriate method that could be used to separate five different mixtures.

Task: complete two multiple choice questions. Assessment focus: respiration of marine mammals and fish.

Students are given some information about simple machines, and are asked to label the effort, load, and pivot on three examples of simple machines.

For this task students select two kinds of activity from those labelled on a diagram of an erupting volcano. Students write a description and the problems or dangers associated with each activity.

Students listen to a narrative about an unusual mouse and then respond to 6 multiple-choice questions.

Students read the humorous narrative 'The Diving Competition' to answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-4-2-1996. Text provided.

Students use a cross-section diagram of a canal to calculate area and volume.

Students are given a key list of words associated with earthquakes. Student use these and their own knowledge to write a paragraph explaining five key points about earthquakes.

For this task students are provided with a diagram of a landslip and an example of a possible cause of this. Students are required to list four other possible causes of landslips.

Students are asked to identify two impending signs of a volcanic eruption and to describe four geological events that are linked to volcanic eruptions.

Students are given a diagram of a glacier, and asked to identify natural hazards and the possible effect of increased temperature on the position of the glacier snout.

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

In this NEMP task students interpret an image of a treasure map.

Students identify types of figures of speech used in some common phrases.

Students view an online animation which illustrates stages of a volcanic eruption, write their observations and answer question about eruptions. Assessment focus: observations based on a model, and knowledge of volcanic eruptions.