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Task: Identify the variables for testing how fresh water and salt water affect rusting. Assessment focus: planning a fair test.

Task: Students fill in a chart to select the best material for making 6 objects, and give reasons for their answers. Assessment focus: properties of materials related to use.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in a garden, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in a garden.

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 review their knowledge of greenhouse gases and the effects of global warming. They identify areas where they are unsure, as well as things they know.

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.

Task: Use a Venn diagram to interpret a food web based on the vegetable garden. Assessment focus: using diagrams to identify relationships between organisms; using systems thinking to describe these relationships.

Assessment focus: finding details to support the main idea of an informational text, and justifying why they agree or disagree with the main idea presented. The text used is about environmental issues to do with endangered native species.

Assessment focus: deciding which description of the main idea of an informational text is most appropriate, and justifying their thinking. The text used is about the adaptation of bird's feet to their environment.

Assessment focus: finding important information and the main idea of an informational text. The text used is about an introduced species of fish which has become a pest. SJ-2-4-2005. Text provided.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to find the main idea of a transactional text about a Māori naturalist/scientist. Students are asked to read a text, identify the main idea from three choices provided, and then justify why they think their choice is right.

Students complete open number sentences to show their understanding of equality.

Students select the correct fraction of toys to click and drag into a suitcase.

Students use a number line to show how to solve whole number subtraction problems.

Students select the correct fraction of food items to click and drag into a chilly bin.

Students exploit additive identity property to find missing numbers in addition and subtraction equations.

Students interpret a graph about getting to school, writing descriptions about each students journey and making statements comparing the journeys.

Students draw lines to divide up shapes into equal parts and name the fractional value of the part.

Students identify the shaded fraction of a number of different shapes.

Students find fractions of numbers of different farm animals and put them in their simplest form.

Students convert heights of a building into the percentage of the given total height, explaining how they solved some conversions. Assessment focus is on how they calculate these heights and what strategies they use.

Students write number sentences for story problems, and create story problems from number sentences.

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

In this practical task students order proper fractions on a number line between 0 and 1.

Students work out what fractions of shapes have been shaded.