Science resources

Task: Answer questions about eggs put into water of different densities. Assessment focus: density.

Task: Identify how to balance a ruler and give a reason for the answer. Assessment focus: balance.

On the outline provided, students colour in a rainbow. They then identify atmospheric conditions needed to see rainbows.

Task: Select which stirrer would feel hottest and explain why, and in which container soup would cool fastest, and explain why. Assessment focus: heat conduction.

Students are asked to identify two impending signs of a volcanic eruption and to describe four geological events that are linked to volcanic eruptions.

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.

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.

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

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: Match definitions to terms about light rays. Assessment focus: scientific vocabulary.

Students explain the differences between the terms; genotype and phenotype; and homozygous and heterozygous.

Students answer four questions on echoes and sound insulation.

Task: Select the correct reason why a bird on a power line does not get electrocuted and select pictures of danger of electrocution, justifying choice. Assessment focus: understanding of the route taken by electricity/electrocution.

From a collection of familiar objects, students identify all those that can be a source of light. They then explain the term 'source of light'.

Task: Answer two questions about light shades. Assessment focus: reflection.

Students are asked to explain the meaning of the terms, recycle, reduce, and reuse.

Students answer three short answer questions on weather, frost, and clouds.