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Students use circuit diagrams to answer three questions about switches and which lamps will light up.

Task: Answer a multiple choice question and explain the reason for choice. Assessment focus: simple circuits and switches.

Identify from four circuit diagrams which bulbs will light up. Assessment focus: electrical circuits.

Students select which of five compass orientations best show the direction of a magnetic field at four different locations.

For this task students understanding of tides is explored. Students are asked to identify where high tides occur when the Moon is in a certain position and how often high tides occur.

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

Students identify the changes of state that are occurring in a diagram showing the separation of fresh water from seawater.

Students are given some information about four gases. They use this information and a key to identify the four gases.

Students answer questions about genotype and phenotype in cats, and explain a breeding result for the genetic characteristic 'taillessness'.

Task: identify micro-organisms. Assessment focus: using an identification key

This task is about describing the behaviour of light rays.

Task: Use a diagram to match shadows to a time of day. Assessment focus: shadows.

Task: Identify the position of the sun and the time of day when the shadows shown is formed. Assessment focus: shadows.

Task: Answer questions about rowing. Assessment focus: levers.

Students carry out a simple experiment with static electricity and then explain their findings.

Students carry out a simple experiment to illustrate refraction. They then explain why this happened.

Students complete a table for six common objects by stating the material used to make each object and a useful property of that material.

In this practical task students investigate the effect of temperature on viscosity. Students describe and explain what has happened.

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

For this task students explain the causes to the difference in height of water levels in a lake during spring, summer, and winter.

Task: Answer a multiple choice question about the material attracted to magnets, select which magnet of four is strongest, and give a reason for choice. Assessment focus: magnetism.

Task: Students use a labelled diagram of a pitcher plant to answer questions about survival. Assessment focus: features for survival.

Students read scales from pictures of everyday measuring equipment.