Science resources

Students evaluate a fair test about whether salt or sugar solution dissolves faster.

Select the correct pair to set up a fair test. Assessment focus: controlling variables.

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.

Task: Students fill in a chart to select the best material for making 6 objects, and give reasons for their answers. Assessment focus: properties of materials related to use.

Students are given an outline of an investigation on heat loss from two different shaped objects (a cube and a sphere). They answer questions on variable control, repeat trialling, and they then graph data from this investigation.

Students are provided with a narrative of two children who have gone back to the past at a time when dinosaurs existed. Students have a number of questions to answer during the narrative.

Students select the most appropriate method that could be used to separate five different mixtures.

Students are given an outline of an investigation on metal corrosion and a graph of some results. Students' ability to interpret the graph and knowledge of fair testing is assessed via short answer questions.

Students identify which substances undergo a permanent change when they are mixed together.

Students are given a partially completed table which details materials which are used as either conductors or insulators of heat. Students complete the table by indicating whether the materials conduct or insulate heat or give an example of its use.

Students interpret a table of data in order to answer four questions on the properties of five different types of paper.

Using information about 'feeding links' between several different animals and plants students draw a food web to show all these links.

The results of three different crosses between long-haired and short-haired rabbits have been provided. Students state, with a reason which characteristic is dominant and complete a punnet square for one of the crosses.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in a garden, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in a garden.

Students decide on the variables that will make an experiment about boiling water a fair test. Assessment focus: Recognising multiple variables.

Task: select which group pictures of animals belong to. Assessment focus: classification of small animals.

Decide whether the photographed animals are reptiles or not, and justify responses. (A fact file giving the features of reptiles is given.) Answer a question about why scientists have an agreed way of grouping living things. Assessment focus: using science-based classifications.

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

Task: sort cards into groups. Assessment focus: classification

Students use a diagram showing similar and dissimilar characteristics of reptiles, birds, and mammals, to answer questions regarding these features.

This practical task assesses students' understanding of the different features of the vertebrate groups. Students need to identify the larger group that their animal card belongs too, then work with other students with the same group to write down all the features of that group.

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

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

Students explain how two armoured reptiles' adaptations protect them from being eaten by predators.

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.