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Students read an article on a town hall pipe organ and answer related questions. SJ-3-2-1985. Text provided.

Students rotate shapes using clockwise and anticlockwise turns.

In this practical task, students use drawings to identify the number of multi-link cubes needed to construct 3-dimensional shapes. They then construct the objects.

In this practical task, students estimate, and then measure, the weight of two objects using a number of multi-link cubes, a balance scale and weights.

In this practical task, students decide how many of four different shaped containers have the same capacity, then check by filling them with water.

In this practical task, students use plastic coins and paper notes to work out three different ways to make the same amount of money.

Students list advantages and disadvantages of recycling. The assessment focuses on students' ability to identify impacts on the environment and its inhabitants (including people).

Students are provided with a diagram of a rocket showing the different stages. Students use this to answer four questions.

Students answer questions about major natural events that happened on the Earth in one week by interpreting a diagram showing these.

Task: Describe what happens to water on black plastic and explain why. Assessment focus: effect of colour on heat retention.

Task: Match each part of a torch to its name, identify whether the torch in the diagram is on or off and provide evidence for opinion, and suggest ways to make the torchlight brighter. Assessment focus: parts of a torch and the function of some of these parts.

A diagram showing the position of Earth in each of the four seasons has been provided. Students use this diagram to identify the season we would experience in New Zealand at each of the numbered places.

Task: multiple choice questions and interpreting a diagram. Assessment focus: phases of the moon.

For this task students identify what may cause clouds to be at different heights and then interpret weather information to answer a multiple-choice question about fog.

Task: Describe problems caused by cutting down trees on a bank. Assessment focus: erosion.

For this task students are provided with some weather information that includes the UV index. Students interpret this information to answer three short answer questions.

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

Students list four things that wouldn't work and the problems this would cause if there was a power cut to their home.

Task: Transfer information from a table to a graph, label the bottom axis and describe the pattern of the data. Assessment focus: graph construction; graph interpretation.

Task: Include three given words in an explanation about how ramps work. Assessment focus: work, distance and force.

Task: Answer a multiple choice question. Assessment focus: displacement.

Task: Answer two questions about pruning loppers. Assessment focus: levers.

Task: Answer questions about making a bike go faster. Assessment focus: friction; gearing.

Students use the term force to explain why a heavier hammer could drive nails into denser material and explain density.

Task: Answer a multiple choice questions about what would be seen on earth if a meteor hit the moon, and explain why that answer is correct. Assessment focus: how sound and light travel.