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Task: Students differentiate between simple observations and inferences, and between observations that require measurement and those that do not. Assessment focus: observing scientifically.

For this practical task students investigate and report on what they noticed about a model river and how different sized materials are moved by the water.

Students estimate and explain how they estimated their answer for two number problems: one involving multiplication; and the other division.

Students describe the images seen in flat and convex mirrors.

This task assesses student understanding of how the form of a word affects the way it is used, i.e., whether a word is used as a noun or a verb.

Students read a letter written to the Board of Trustees, and make it more formal by writing the contractions as full words.

Students write headlines for brief newspaper items. This task assesses student ability to summarise text as a headline.

Students need to interpret data about travel time to school and common after-school activities and identify which statement is true from a list of given statements.

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

Students calculate the lengths and areas of a road sign.

Students perform addition, multiplication, and percentage calculations based on information about the cost of buying and posting computer programs.

This task is about subtracting with different parts of the equation missing.

This practical requires students to place four photographs of kākāpo at different times in their life cycle in order from youngest to oldest. Students describe how the kākāpo changes from each part of the life cycle to the next. NOTE: This resource is intended to be used in colour.

For this practical students make observations about dissolving, and plan and carry out an investigation to find out what makes sugar dissolve more quickly.

For this practical task students make a prediction about which lot of ice will melt first. Then students record their observations and explain why one lot of ice melted faster than the other.

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

Task: Identify examples of experiencing sound. Assessment focus: sound.

Students write addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division story problems for given car advertisements.

Students complete a mindmap to show they are able to group ideas.

This oral language resource has students matching debating terms and their definitions with extracts from a debate.

Different selections are made from a canteen menu that will cost a given amount. An extension activity is given that asks for all possible combinations to be found.

Students use co-ordinates to identify a coded message.

Task: Students answer questions about a soil food web. Assessment focus: reading a food web, systems thinking.

In this practical task, students estimate and then measure how far they can jump.

Students select the answer for two subtraction problems, select which one they thought was easier, and explain their reasons for this.