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This resource explores a poem written for two voices about a windy night. Text provided.

Students view a television advertisement, and answer questions about advertising techniques and the effect on the audience.

Students count the number of pairs thrown in a series of throws of three dice to evaluate the long-run relative frequency of getting a pair.

Students calculate the cost of hiring a search and rescue helicopter and compare this cost with another helicopter company's charges.

Students formulate questions about glaciers and climate change to show awareness that informed opinions are based on inter-related aspects of evidence rather than individual instances.

After reading a narrative about a shrewd boy, students identify evidence in the text that supports their thinking. Assessment focus: analysing and evaluating a character and the author's construction of him. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Task administration section of the Teacher information pages.) Reading age 8-9. SJ-2-4-2000. Text provided.

Students predict how a cube will travel when flicked in different positions, and conduct an experiment to see what happens in practice.

A lively narrative about a pig hunt provides the context for this listening comprehension resource. Students recall information and make inferences.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of an article about a geologist. Junior Journal 21. Text provided.

Task: Measure 100mL of water into three different pieces of equipment. Weigh the result and calculate the precision of using that piece of equipment. Assessment focus: measuring and evaluating the accuracy of equipment.

Students show how to divide 3-digit whole numbers into equal sized groups and identify any remainder.

Students calculate the repair charges of two different garages, graph them, and explain the results.

Students interpret two cartoon-style drawings of the enhanced greenhouse effect and write a short description of the artist’s message, as they see this.

Students conduct a statistical investigation into the sentence length of different types of books by making and comparing dot plots.

Task: Order wheels according to technological development, then answer questions about advantages and disadvantages of different wheels. Assessment focus: how wheels work.

Task: Answer questions about a planned wildlife reserve. Assessment focus: interdependence of animals with their habitat.

Students explain the terms endangered and extinct. Students give two examples of animals that are endangered and give reasons for why these animal numbers have declined.

Using a diagram of a regular hexagon, students calculate its interior and exterior angles.

In this practical task, students estimate and then measure temperatures.

Students use linear equations to help them solve word problems about the cost of computer repairs.

In this task students build the next two models of a spatial sequential pattern and then use their results to predict subsequent patterns and give general rules for these in words and in equations.

This grammar resource has a focus on verbs. Students identify verbs in sentences, and answer questions on the active or passive voice.

This task assesses a student's ability to persuade an audience to agree with their opinion. Some speech topics and a checklist are provided.

Students cut out pictures and use them to show all the different possible combinations of two sets of objects.

Students create a character vignette with a focus on writing pieces that are brief, descriptive, and set in one point in time. They should not be concerned with plot. As the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, students need to show a controlled and elegant skill in writing, and to use figurative language to 'show' rather than 'tell'.