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Students design a low energy house.

This task requires students to read and interpret a pictograph which shows the number of planes landing each day at an airport. This pictograph has a key.

Students answer two multichoice questions giving explanations for their choice and two short answer questions.

Students read an article about the Moa then answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-3-1982. Text not provided.

Students are provided with a narrative of two children who have gone back to the past at a time when dinosaurs existed. Students have a number of questions to answer during the narrative.

Students read from, and mark points on, non-linear scales.

In this practical task students order proper fractions on a number line between 0 and 1.

For this NEMP task students listened to a set of directions, then followed instructions to show this information on a map.

Students read opinions written by four different students and make inferences to answer comprehension questions.

Task: Students decide whether six animals are insects or spiders and justify their answers. Assessment focus: Using evidence.

Students interpret time frames and slope from a graph showing the area of a painted wall over time.

Task: Make careful observations of a picture to decide what you can see and what you might know but can't see.

Students explain how they can work out how many striped or shaded beads are needed for a number of repeated 'sets', and identify the number of striped and shaded beads for given numbers of sets.

From given examples, students define four root words then complete a chart of root words and their meanings.

An account of a fishing adventure in a lagoon provides the content for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

Students identify the fraction that best describes the proportion of triangles that are shaded in.

Task: multiple choice questions and interpreting a diagram. Assessment focus: phases of the moon.

Task: Students differentiate between simple observations and inferences, and between observations that require measurement and those that do not. Assessment focus: observing scientifically.

This practical task requires students to follow an experimental design that investigates various forms of insulation. They are required to gather results, make a conclusion, and identify the variables.

Choose which toy vehicle will roll further, and explain why. The two vehicles are set up under different conditions (ramps at different slopes, rolling onto different surfaces at the bottom). Assessment focus: science explanations using ideas about forces and energy.

For this practical task students record their observations as an egg is poached in water.

Students use diagrams of rock layers to answer questions concerning geological history, oldest layer, and to account for the presence of fossils.

In this task students compare two photographs of a river with normal flow and a river in flood. They make inferences based on their observations.

Students match bar graphs to tally charts.

Task: use information and observation skills to identify whether pictures of fish are either bony fish or sharks. Assessment focus: classification, interpreting a Venn diagram.