Refine Current Search

Students are provided with a weather map for the North Island of NZ and interpret this information to answer three short answer questions.

Students are provided with a diagram that shows some ways water moves in a water cycle. Students are required to explain what is happening in three places and explain how water that falls as snow might get to the sea.

For this task students use a diagram to explain the different seasons experienced in different hemispheres.

Drawings of four different seeds are provided. Students explain how each seed is dispersed.

Task: choose 3 features of a mosquito and say how they help it survive. Assessment focus: adaptations for survival.

Task: Label a diagram. Assessment focus: relative positions of Earth and Sun for each season.

Students are provided with a diagram and asked to identify the type of geological process that it represents. Students are also required to explain what happened.

Students answer three questions by interpreting a weather map and other forecast information.

Task: Complete a table to show how energy is transformed in eight objects and describe the energy transformations in two others. Assessment focus: energy transformation.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of an explanation of a scientific idea.

Students identify invariant properties for enlargement.

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.

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

Students enlarge shapes by specified increases in each dimension.

Students decide what information is required to calculate an average.

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.

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.

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

In this practical task students order numbers from smallest to largest by gluing them onto a picture of a snake.

Students read an article about a cockatoo to find factual information. Junior Journal 17. Text not provided.

Students identify and continue the number pattern for a stack of cans and complete a graph to demonstrate the relationship between two sets of numbers.

Task: Use data in a table to construct a graph and answer questions about the patterns. Assessment focus: interpreting tables and graphs.