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A brief poem about hedgehogs is read to students who then answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students use a protractor to find given angles and draw angles of given degrees.

Students read an article on kiwi and answer multiple choice questions that focus on inference and information retrieval.

Students read a newspaper article and answer questions about comprehension and vocabulary.

Students read a newspaper article about outdoor activities then answer some comprehension questions.

Task: Answer questions about a monarch butterfly's life cycle. Assessment focus: insect life cycle. This resource includes an interactive infographic. You will need Adobe Flash Player to view it.

This practical task requires students to use a simple star map to point out the apparent location of stars or star groups during daylight hours. Students also use the star map to show where the Southern Cross would be situated at different times of an evening.

This whole investigation requires students to find out how spring stretch is affected by different masses pulling on it. There is also a section for planning a similar investigation and a processing section using some provided data.

This practical task requires students to plan, process, and evaluate an investigation on types of fruit and the voltage that each can produce.

For this practical task students write a plan to find out if a microwave has a 'hot spot'. Students carry out their plan, collect, and interpret results.

For this practical task students investigate some features of craters, complete a table, and explain what they found out. Students then use a diagram showing some craters on the Moon to write as much information as they can about these craters.

Task: Match recycled materials to their possible uses, and justify reasons for recycling. Assessment focus: reasons for recycling.

This task assesses whether students know the most suitable reference resource to go to for particular information.

Task: use a chart comparing the features of insects and spiders to decide which group a wētā belongs in. Assessment Focus: classification.

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

This task requires a hyacinth bulb to be set up in a glass container. As it develops and grows students make observations.

Students read a text on shoplifting to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

A newspaper article on working from home is the stimulus for this resource. The assessment focus is on looking at both sides of an issue, vocabulary and comprehension.

Students read a short extract on diving and answer five comprehension questions.

Students read through an article about a pending tidal wave. From their comprehension of the cloze passage, they fill in the gaps with their own words. SJ-2-2-1982. Text provided.

A story about getting rid of family junk is the context for this task. Students find evidence to make inferences about the characters. SJ-1-4-1998. Text not provided.

Students read an article on cold water survival and retrieve information from this text.

Students read a short article about Black Holes to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

This resource is a listening task with an assessment focus on identifying information from a weekly weather and snow report.

Task: Use information about differences between moths and butterflies to decide which category examples belong to, and identify what evidence was used. Assessment focus: observation, using evidence.