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Students write equations for story problems describing practical situations.

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 are asked four short questions that explore their understanding of the Earth's rotation, Earth's revolution, and seasons.

Students read statements about a stem-and-leaf graph and indicate whether the statements are true or false.

Students work out area, length and angles of a shape after enlargement.

Students give reasons for and against saving endangered animals or plants.

Task: Look at the arrangement of fibres for four different paper towels, arrange an appropriate sequence of instructions, carry out the instructions and then communicate the data in an appropriate graph that will help answer the question. Different elements of the nature of science are embedded throughout the tasks. Assessment focus: planning and carrying out a fair test, using evidence to answer a question.

Students interpret information about unnamed planets and their length of year to answer questions about their distance from the Sun and the order of these planets from the Sun.

This practical task requires students to describe to a partner their observations about an ice cube melting. Students then develop questions about what they observe.

For this practical task students are provided with four types of plant storage organs. They classify examples as one of these types of food storage organ. Students also look at the tap root and a tuber and describe the main differences between them.

Task: Answer two questions about setting up a fair test and another about insulating houses. Assessment focus: controlling variables.

Students give two pieces of information a scientist could learn from placing bands on the legs of birds.

For this practical task students use their knowledge about the properties of gases to explain their observations when they blow up a balloon that is inside a bottle and a balloon that is not inside a bottle.

Students use stimulus material to answer a number of questions relating to temperature change in materials which are at different distances from a heat source.

Students draw a graph from some information they are given about the heating of meths in a water bath. Students then explain in terms of particles what is happening for the sloping section and the flat section of the graph.

Task: Investigate the length of shadows in relationship to the sun's position. Assessment focus: interpreting a model.

This practical task requires students to make observations and draw diagrams about diffusion that occurs when food colouring is added to water.

Students are given stimulus material on the stopping distance of a toy car released from different heights. Students write an aim, the best way to present the results, identify the measurement required in order to calculate the average speed, and write a conclusion for the investigation.

Students solve mathematical problems about days off school and identify another linear equation that represents the situation.

Students use pictures to help them list the 24 different combinations of four children sitting in a row of desks.

Students use substitution to evaluate a linear equation for parking charges. Students expand, simplify, and change the subject of the equation.

Students use a template to complete three rotations of a bird in the cage. The same template is used to draw the reflection of the bird using the mirror line shown on the cage.

The context for this oral assessment is an informative speech about a famous person or an historical event. ARB scoring guides A, B, and C are suitable for this task.

Students present an instructive speech to the class or small group. Some topics are provided as examples and scoring guides for teachers are attached.

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students complete a table giving definitions and examples of proper, common, collective, and abstract nouns.