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Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students place photos of a canoe trip in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Students consider the potential for chemical change when a range of everyday substances are mixed. They use logical reasoning to work out the consequences of four pairs of reactions.

Students place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Task: explain the effect of temperature on metal and wood. Assessment focus: the effect of heat on different materials.

Task: Describe what happens to ice in a glass of water, giving reasons, and explain where water forming on the outside of the glass comes from. Assessment focus: changes of state.

Task: Complete a diagram of part of the water cycle and answer a question about rain. Assessment focus: Question a) – the water cycle and conventions of diagrams; question b) – evaporation of a solution.

The assessment focus is on student ability to identify details that support the main idea of a text, and to identify where the main idea is developed.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details about important information in a recount about a walking school bus, then identify the main idea of this text. SJ-1-1-2006. Text provided.

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.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about one of our native birds. The task is essentially a literacy task in the context of scientific writing, and can also be accessed from the English Bank.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Students identify the larger of two improper fractions and drag a number of improper and mixed fractions into ascending order.

Students compare drawings of a healthy and unhealthy plant and decide which quantitative and/or qualitative data distinguishes them. They draw conclusions from the data. This is a mathematics/science resource.

Students calculate fraction division problems and show their working.

Students work out the missing dimension on a rectangle and show how they obtained it using proportional reasoning.

Students answer questions using a fraction as an operator to find the fraction quantities.

Students identify a correct statement about the comparing the overall distribution of two dot plots.

Make observations from a photograph, identify potential environmental problems giving reasons, decide which problem is the most important and give reasons for the choice.

Task: Make observations from a photograph, identify potential environmental problems giving reasons, decide which problem is the most important, and give reasons for the choice. Assessment focus: (1) observation, and (2) identifying and prioritising cause and effect relationships.