Key competencies resources

Students work out fractional values of whole numbers in a range of contexts and show their working.

Students identify fractions that are greater than a half and explain their reasoning. They also identify how far from half some fractions are and name a fraction closer to half than one given.

Students answer questions using a fraction as an operator to find the fraction quantities.

Students add and subtract fractions to work out fractions of food.

Students answer questions involving finding how many of one fraction goes into another fraction.

Students show that given a fractional part they can show the whole shape or another fractional part.

Students use cuisenaire rods to work out part-whole fraction problems.

Task: Answer two questions about melting and two questions about dissolving. Assessment focus: describe and explain melting and dissolving.

Task: Complete a diagram of part of the water cycle and answer a question about rain. Assessment focus: Question a) – the water cycle and conventions of diagrams; question b) – evaporation of a solution.

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

Some notes on the rabbit calicivirus are provided. Students use these and their own understandings of food chains to answer four questions.

Task: Students identify which different events threaten our native birds or have done so in the past. Assessment focus: identification of the specific impacts of human actions.

Students use given information to solve a problem using a Venn diagram.

Students are provided with a food web based on organisms of the rocky shore and sea. Students use this to answer questions about food chains in the food web.

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

This task requires students to estimate some addition problems using any appropriate method.

Students estimate the sum of a number of fractions.

Students calculate percentage increases and decreases for odd jobs and show their working.

Task: Match the parts of a water cycle to the parts represented in a model of the water cycle and compare how they are the same and different. Assessment focus: interpreting a model.

Task: Students play a card game to construct a waterways relationships web. Assessment focus: relationships within a waterways ecosystem.

Task: Fill in a chart to identify the damage caused by various animal pests. Assessment focus: specific contextual knowledge about animal pests.

Task: Interpret a flowchart and text to identify in what ways goats are pests. Assessment focus: identifying ways in which goats are pests and how they are controlled.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in or near an ocean, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in an ocean environment.

Students answer questions about fractions of different wholes (units).

Students write a report on a table of data and make recommendations from their report.