Knowledge resources

Select which materials are transparent, opaque, or translucent. Assessment focus: vocabulary of a material property.

Students answer 2 multiple choice questions about condensation. The assessment focus is on identifying where the condensation has come from.

Task: Draw a line to match animals to their footprints, and explain why it may be useful to identify animals by their footprints. Assessment focus: using features to name animals.

Name the group various animals belong to. Assessment focus: classification.

Students classify 12 common substances as either a compound, mixture, or element.

This task assesses students' understanding of the states of matter by requiring them to draw and label diagrams of water as a solid, liquid , and gas.

Students classify six common substances as either a solid, liquid, or a gas. Students then group these substances into elements, mixtures, or compounds.

Task: Sort vertebrate animals according to given classification groups. Assessment focus: classification of animals.

Task: Describe where water goes when washing is drying and from a swimming pool, and discuss factors that affect this process. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Task: Match items to the correct temperature. Assessment focus: temperature.

Students are given a diagram of a glacier, and asked to identify natural hazards and the possible effect of increased temperature on the position of the glacier snout.

Students explain their understandings of the benefits of having trees in the school playground.

Task: identify features of a spider. Assessment focus: classification of spider.

Students describe what makes two boats move and change direction.

Task: Name the parts of a bike and describe how some of them work. Assessment focus; knowledge of the working systems of a bicycle.

Task: Students answer questions about what will make mountain bike riders go faster. Assessment focus: Air resistance.

Students suggest why two girls of the same weight go down a slide at different speeds, and then identify the forces acting on the girls. The assessment focus is on the forces of gravity and friction.

Task: answer questions about classification of a platypus. Assessment focus: classification features of mammals.

Task: draw a diagram showing how a periscope works. Assessment focus: reflected light.

Task: Select which picture correctly shows an ice cube in a glass of water and select correct explanation. Assessment focus: density of ice.

Students carry out a simple experiment with static electricity and then explain their findings.

Students are provided with four illustrations of situations where using electricity could be dangerous. Students are asked to explain why each situation is dangerous.

Task: complete 2 diagrams. Assessment focus: centre of gravity.

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.

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