Science resources

Students use diagrams to answer questions about atoms, elements, compounds, and mixtures. They are then asked to use these words to describe the differences between diagrams.

Students draw up a table to illustrate results of how indicators change when placed into four different liquids.

Students are given diagrams representing the three states of matter. Students answer four questions relating to these.

Students are provided with a table that gives them some properties of five different materials. They answer four short answer questions that involve interpreting information from the table.

Students demonstrate their knowledge of solid, liquid, and gas particles by drawing the particle arrangement for wax vapour, molten wax, and candle wax.

Students interpret a table on the properties of plastics by answering a series of short questions.

Students use information on the properties of five different drinks in order to place them correctly into a key.

Students identify the changes of state that are occurring in a diagram showing the separation of fresh water from seawater.

Students identify the solids, liquids, and gases in three short passages.

Students use provided symbols to write formula and to draw diagrams of different compounds.

Students are given the formula of two different types of chlorophyll. Students name all the elements present, and how the number of atoms differs between the chlorophylls.

Students use a table of information on melting points and boiling points of six different substances to answer questions about states of matter.

Students are given some information about four gases. They use this information and a key to identify the four gases.

Students interpret the diagrams of mixtures, solutions, and pure substances. Then they draw diagrams to represent other combinations of substances.

Students use the periodic table and their own knowledge to complete the types of atoms present, and total number of atoms present for three compounds.

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

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

Students are provided with a graph of the heating curve for octane. Students use this to answer questions about state, temperatures, and changes of state.

Students use information on nine elements from the periodic table to answer four short questions.

Students draw a graph from some information they are given about the heating of meths in a water bath. Students then explain in terms of particles what is happening for the sloping section and the flat section of the graph.

Students use diagrams of substances with labelled atoms to write their chemical formula.

Students answer a multi choice question and draw and explain their understandings about heat convection in a hot water cylinder. Assessment focus: Using science ideas to explain heat convection.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about one of our native birds. The task is essentially a literacy task in the context of scientific writing, and can also be accessed from the English Bank.

Task: Students answer questions about a soil food web. Assessment focus: reading a food web, systems thinking.

Task: Explain the science messages communicated in a cartoon. Assessment focus: decomposition and photosynthesis.