Knowledge resources

Students draw a line from each of the named animals to a feature of this animal.

Task: answer two questions about features of bats. Assessment focus: classification.

Task: Identify the features of three animals, name their classification group, and answer two questions comparing features of the groups. Assessment focus: classification of animals.

Select from multiple choice options. Assessment focus: classification features of insects and mammals.

Task: compare features of sea mammals and fish, and describe two features of mammals. Assessment focus: classification of fish and mammals.

Task: group pictures of animals under headings. Assessment focus: classification of mammals, birds, and insects.

Task: Select whether statements about the Moon are true or false. Assessment focus: the Moon.

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

Task: Discuss opinions, presented as a concept cartoon, about why a toy car rolled down a slope eventually stops and develop group explanation. Assessment focus: explanations

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.

Students use a diagram of a solar eclipse to answer four questions.

Students use a diagram of a circuit to answer questions about which bulbs are in parallel and which are in series. Students are also required to put a switch into the circuit diagram provided.

Task: Answer questions about the fire triangle. Assessment focus: elements necessary for combustion.

Task: Answer questions about a monarch butterfly's life cycle. Assessment focus: insect life cycle. This resource includes an interactive infographic. You will need Adobe Flash Player to view it.

Students follow a story about searching for gold on an island. In the process they answer five questions about landforms.

Task: students write the sense related to various parts of a dog's body. Assessment focus: sensory organs.

Task: sort cards into groups. Assessment focus: classification

This practical task assesses students' ability to identify the larger group that four animals belong to and then to identify the features that those groups have using animal cards and labels.

Students identify the larger group that four animals belong the features that those groups have using images of the animals.

Students select which type of sugar would dissolve fastest and explain why.

Task: sort cards and answer questions orally. Assessment focus: classification of animals.

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

Students are provided with five diagrams of different arrangements of atoms. They select which diagram represents water, graphite, oxygen, and carbon monoxide.

Students answer one multiple-choice question about how the mass of a burning object changes.

Task: Students place in order four beakers of copper sulphate solution from most to least concentrated. They then explain what would happen if two beakers were put together, and explain the term "concentration". Assessment focus: solutions.