Science resources

Task: Students answer questions about feeding relationships in a rocky shore ecosystem. Assessment focus: interpreting a food web.

Task: Identify the colours on a taxi sitting under a red streetlight. Assessment focus: Coloured light can be produced by blocking some parts of the spectrum.

Task: Answer questions about the surface of water in a water cooler on a moving train. Assessment focus: forces.

Students answer questions about genotype and phenotype in cats, and explain a breeding result for the genetic characteristic 'taillessness'.

Task: Answer three questions. Assessment focus: condensation.

Task: Students apply both their knowledge of the functions of roots and information from a model to explain why care is needed when transplanting trees. Assessment focus: interpreting diagrams.

Students identify the producers, herbivores, and carnivores in four illustrated food chains. Students then explain each of these terms and explain what the arrows in food chains mean.