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For this practical task students record their observations as an egg is poached in water.

Students are given some solids and liquids for this practical task. They plan how they would find out which liquids are solvents for any given solid, carry out the task, and write a conclusion.

Task: Answer questions about how a seesaw works and use an equation to calculate how to balance the seesaw.

Task: Make a sound gun and use it to investigate what happens to a candle when the end of the sound gun is tapped. Assessment focus: sound waves.

Students classify a range of animals as mammals, birds, or fish.

Task: Plan a fair test to see if adding salt water to water affects how long it takes to freeze. Assessment focus: managing variables.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to the light form a torch. Assessment focus: light.

Task: Select the correct words to decribe what is happening to light as it travels through a drop of water. Assessment focus: scientific vocabulary.

Students identify the coins that would be given as change in a range of transactions.

Students answer two multiple-choice questions that look at the life cycle of butterflies and frogs.

Students read analogue clock faces, and carry out time calculations drawing the results onto other clock faces.

Students carry out time calculations, showing some responses on analogue clock faces, and interpret an analogue time.

Students explain two ways to make salt dissolve faster when in cold water.

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

Students use a table of information to answer questions about descriptions of different substances.

Students state if each of four jars containing different substances would sink or float.

Students are provided with six pictures of animals. They identify those that can fly, and explain what these animals have in common.

Students are given four pictures, and are asked to draw a circle around the picture that is not a bird, and then give a reason for their choice. Similarly, they circle animals that are not mammals, fish, and molluscs.

Task: Identify which actions would make it easier to attract a paper clip. Assessment focus: magnetism.

Task: Identify how to balance a ruler and give a reason for the answer. Assessment focus: balance.

Task: Answer two questions. Assessment focus: insulation.

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

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.

Using shapes on grids, students translate points by different vectors.

Using shapes on grids, students translate points by different vectors.