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Students read a cartoon to answer retrieval and inferential questions about the story and the visual techniques used. SJ-1-1-1994.

Students interpret a series of road safety drawings with questions on visual cues, titles, emphasis and providing appropriate text.

Students complete a bar graph from details about paua diving and answer questions interpreting the data, including finding an average.

Students construct a back-to-back stem-and-leaf graph for heights of trees. They then answer a question on range and make a statement comparing the heights of akeake and kōhūhū.

Students identify the visual techniques used within a static image and describe how they support the meaning of the written text.

Task: Predict which of three balls dropped from different heights will squash most, explain why, and design an investigation to test prediction. Assessment focus: acceleration and fair testing.

Task: Students give oral explanations about how the features of a wētā or a mallard duck help it survive in its environment. Peer assessment sheets are included. Assessment focus: structure and function.

Students order a range of fractions on a number line.

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

Students cut out and attach fractions onto a number line in order from smallest to largest.

Students draw in the correct number of blocks needed to balance some scales and write equations for scales that show balance.

Students use a number line to show how to solve whole number addition and subtraction problems.

Students complete a diagram to show basic fractions of a journey to school in order from smallest to largest.

Task: Match descriptions of kingfishers to their likely diet, and answer questions about food chains. Assessment focus: interpretation of text and pie graphs; conventions of food chains.

For this practical task students are assessed on their ability to record their observations of the decomposition of a cut slice of pumpkin over a two week time period.

Students estimate the sum of a number of fractions.

Students use doubling and halving to solve multiplication problems.

Students identify a correct statement about the overall distribution of a graph and explain their reasoning.

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 decide whether four dinosaurs are meat-eaters or plant-eaters, and justify their answers. A list of features of each group is provided. It may be completed individually or as a group assessment. Assessment focus: using evidence.

Students add and subtract fractions to work out fractions of food.

Students use cuisenaire rods to work out part-whole fraction problems.

In Part 1 students identify visual techniques used within a static image and describe how they support the meaning of the poem. In Part 2, students create a text to communicate ideas visually. Annotated student work samples of Part 2 are provided.

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.

Students decide if a statement is correct and then give a reason for their answer. Assessment focus: Using science ideas to explain a view.