Science resources

Task: use features to group small animals, identify differences between 3 animals, and identify the insects. Assessment focus: using features to group small animals.

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.

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

Students are asked four short questions that explore their understanding of the Earth's rotation, Earth's revolution, and seasons.

Task: Students describe two features of a skull that suggest it comes from a herbivore. Assessment focus: features of a herbivore's skull.

Task: Students decide what sort of animals two skulls belong to. A self-assessment checklist is included. Assessment focus: using evidence to identify carnivores and herbivores.

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

Task: match seed description to a dispersal method. Assessment focus: seed dispersal.

In this task, students look for patterns in electron arrangement in the periodic table. They use their ideas to place missing elements in the table, answer some questions about the patterns, and use the patterns to predict the properties of some elements.

Students are provided with six pictures of animals. They identify those that can fly, and explain what these animals have in common.

Students answer three questions by interpreting a weather map and other forecast information.

Students read about sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, identify an asexual plant by budding characteristics and answer two questions on the advantages of asexual reproduction.

Students draw a line from each genetic term to its correct definition.

Students are required to match plant parts with their function.