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Students cut out shapes and rotate them to find the number of times each shape fits onto itself in a complete turn.

Task: Students answer questions about a Southern Ocean food web. Assessment focus: interpreting food webs.

Students show or explain how two different fraction numbers can represent the same fraction.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about moa.

Task: Use written text about farming's contribution to climate change to complete a flow chart, and answer questions about the two texts. Assessment focus: interpreting, using, and comparing different types of text.

This task requires students to identify the information that is required to calculate averages for given purposes.

Students complete a table showing times to boil different quantities of water. They identify the rule that relates the amount of water to boiling time and use it to answer questions.

Students are provided with a diagram of a roadside cutting. They are asked to mark the fault line and the youngest rock layer in this cutting. Students then suggest two explanations for the pattern shown in the diagram.

Students read an extract about gathering water in Sāmoa to find information to fill in a chart. SJ-3-3-1999. Text provided.

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

A diagram showing the position of Earth in each of the four seasons has been provided. Students use this diagram to identify the season we would experience in New Zealand at each of the numbered places.

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

Students are provided with two diagrams, one showing the focus of earthquakes in NZ and the other the Earth's plates. Students interpret these diagrams and use them to answer three short questions.

Students complete a diagram of a geyser by writing the correct labels from a given selection. Students are also required to answer what causes the water to heat up.

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

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.

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.

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

Task: use a key to identify a fish, then complete a key to identify shellfish. Assessment focus: classification keys.

Students identify odd and even numbers by colouring them different colours.

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.

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.

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

Students identify invariant properties for enlargement.