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Students explore multiples of 2, 10, and 20 using repeated addition on a given starting number.

Students decide what information is required to calculate an average.

Students enlarge shapes by specified increases in each dimension.

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.

For this practical task students create a sundial by marking observations and recording the time for each hour, and answer questions about shadows and sundials.

Students predict whether two dice games are fair and give their reasons. They then play each game (investigate) fifty times and explain their results.

Students are provided with five rules to follow during a thunderstorm with lightning. Students select two of these rules and explain the science behind the rule.

Students answer two multiple choice questions about fair testing in the context of static electricity.

Students construct a line graph to show the relationship between Zoe's heartbeats at different times of the day.

Students read a map of a new school, and answer questions about the placement of some trees. They are assessed on their ability to suggest the trees' impact on the school environment.

Using information about comets, students label a diagram of a comet and draw the orbit of a comet and the position of the comet in two places in its orbit.

Task: Answer questions about types of solar eclipse. Assessment focus: interpreting diagrams.

Task: Use a diagram to answer questions about seasons and day and night. Assessment focus: relationship of Sun and Earth.

A diagram representing an area of a civil emergency is provided and students are asked to identify the geological event that has caused this. Students then give six hazards or problems that could result from this geological event.

This practical task requires students to make observations of three different types of soils and record their observations in a chart.

Students interpret a weather map to answer three multiple-choice questions on information it contains.

Task: Students draw a fruit tree for each season of the year. Assessment focus: Seasonal changes of fruit trees.

Students identify qualities of structure, voice, body language, and rapport for a speech.

In this practical task, students make specified 3-dimensional shapes, and then sort them into two groups according to criteria that the student defines.

Task: Complete a diagram of the length and position of a shadow of a flagpole. Assessment focus: shadows in relation to sun's position.

This resource requires students to process information on an earthquake. This entails calculating the distance that the recording stations are from an earthquake's epicentre, locating the epicentre, calculating the magnitude, and answering general questions on earthquakes.

This practical task has students investigate the surface area of three objects and whether this influences the rate of evaporation. Students fill in a table, and calculate the water loss and answer questions to show their understanding.

Students identify and write in missing entries from a conversion table, answer questions interpreting the table, and state the rule for conversion.

Students are provided with a weather map showing the lower North Island of NZ. Students are required to interpret this map to answer three short answer questions.

For this task students are provided with a table of weather observations for a day in September. Students are required to write a weather report using headings that have been provided.