Key competencies resources

Task: Match animal pests to the harm they cause, and use information about pest control. Assessment focus: animal pests and their control.

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: Use evidence to make inferences about how leaves help plants survive in particular environments. Assessment focus: leaf adaptations.

Students identify the correct resultant vector of two component vectors, and also identify the correct diagram of a vector that is written in column form.

Task: Sort cards to identify how four items of rubbish will impact on the beach, plants and animals that are found there, and humans. They then select items to remove and leave, and justify their decisions. Assessment focus: impact of materials on the environment.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

Task: Students draw a picture of a burning candle to show changes that occur. Assessment focus: representing the way particles behave when material undergoes temporary and permanent changes.

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.

Task: Match everyday terms about properties with their meanings. Use their understanding about properties of paper and their uses to justify appropriate questions to investigate. Assessment focus: asking questions about paper properties.

Task: Describe and compare some physical properties of plastic objects and identify the properties scientists might use for classifying materials. Assessment focus: classifying using physical properties.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers. Assessment focus: evaporation.

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

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: Draw what happens when sugar is added to a cup of coffee. Assessment focus: dissolving.

Task: Students draw to show their ideas about what happens when a puddle dries up. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Students identify fractions that are greater than a half, explain their reasoning, and identify how far from half some fractions are.

Student solve addition problems where the missing value is located in different positions. This may mean that students transform the problem into a subtraction one. Students reflect on the easiest and hardest problems, and explain their choice.

Students demonstrate their understanding of order of operations by explaining how a correct answer is calculated.

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

Students answer questions using percentages to find missing amounts, and writing percentages using given amounts.

Students show how to work out the number of 1-digit that there are in 2-digit numbers.

Students calculate fraction division problems and show their working.

Students identify fractions that are greater than one, explain their reasoning and identify how far from one some fractions are.