Refine Current Search

Students draw a line from the type of bee to the bee's job in the hive.

Task: Match items to the correct temperature. Assessment focus: temperature.

Students draw a line from each measurement and unit to its equivalent.

Students are required to show their understanding of circuits by drawing wires to link a battery to bulbs so that the bulbs will light up.

Task: Match simple machines to items, select length of bar to lift a rock, and draw how to set up bar and a block of wood to lift the rock. Assessment focus: levers.

In this practical task students use play money to show fractions of dollar amounts.

Assessment focus: deciding which description of the main idea of an informational text is most appropriate, and justifying their thinking. The text used is about the adaptation of bird's feet to their environment.

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

Task: Match everyday terms about properties with their meanings. Use their understanding about properties of paper and their uses to justify appropriate questions to investigate. Assessment focus: asking questions about paper properties.

Students are assessed on their knowledge of parts of speech. They work through a short text and identify the nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

Students calculate and identify the shape with the largest area, and the longest perimeter from three shapes drawn on a grid.

Students are provided with a diagram of a rocket showing the different stages. Students use this to answer four questions.

Task: Draw a line to match animals to their footprints, and explain why it may be useful to identify animals by their footprints. Assessment focus: using features to name animals.

Task: compare features of sea mammals and fish, and describe two features of mammals. Assessment focus: classification of fish and mammals.

Task: Select which state of water applies to a list of places where water can be found. Assessment focus: states of water.

After reading a narrative that explores family dynamics, students identify evidence in the text that supports their thinking. Assessment focus: analysing and evaluating a character and the author's construction of him. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Task administration section of the Teacher information pages.) Reading age 8-9. SJ-3-3-2003.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

For this practical task students are given a variety of objects which they are required to make observations on by using their senses.

Students study a range of signs to identify their similarities of meaning, layout, and purpose.

Students investigate energy transfer by colliding marbles, explaining their observations, and what happens to the energy of the moving marble on impact.

This practical task assesses students' ability to record and graph data, and draw conclusions, as they conduct an experiment on the rate at which an ice cube melts in different temperatures.

Students listen to instructions on where to go when visiting the zoo, then draw the path on a map. The assessment focus is on listening, recalling, and following instructions.

In this practical task, students construct pyramid patterns using triangles. They then predict how many triangles would be needed for the next size pyramid and explain their rule.

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

Students answer questions by dividing a given amount of chocolate bars equally, and finding a fraction of the total amount.