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Once Were Warriors: visual analysis
Assessment focus: ability to critically analyse and interpret a visual text, based on individual perception and the use of descriptors (visual/verbal/sound etc) to illustrate interpretation. Keywords (visual literacy; analysis; interpretation; meaning making;) Publication date (11/12/2009)
Dancing Cossacks
Assessment focus: ability of students to use both knowledge acquired from the text and their own backgrounds. This task assesses students' ability to critically engage with media texts. Keywords (visual literacy; analysis; interpretation; meaning making;) Publication date (11/12/2009)
Kiwiburger: advertisement analysis
Assessment focus: ability to interpret visual texts though deconstructing messages to access multiple layers of meaning, by drawing on both the text and previous knowledge and experiences. Keywords (visual literacy; analysis; interpretation; meaning making;) Publication date (11/12/2009)
Hugo
Assessment focus: ability to deconstruct and interpret messages in advertising, so that students can understand meaning making processes in the construction of imagery. Keywords (visual literacy; analysis; interpretation; meaning making;) Publication date (11/12/2009)
Nippers: "awkward"
Assessment focus: ability to use contextual clues to infer meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Task Administration section of the teacher information pages.) Keywords (vocabulary; School Journal;) Publication date (17/09/2009)
Nippers: "spectators"
Assessment focus: ability to use contextual clues to infer meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Task Administration section of the teacher information pages.) Keywords (vocabulary; School Journal;) Publication date (17/09/2009)
Spinner probabilities Students decide which arrow on three spinners is most likely to point to white, and explain their reasons. Keywords (probability;) Publication date (14/12/2009)
Colour of lunch boxes
Students decide which statement about a dot plot is incorrect and explain their reasoning. Keywords (graph interpretation; distribution; dot plot;) Publication date (14/12/2009)
Commutative number lines
Students use number lines to show their understanding of commutativity. Keywords (spatial patterns; growing patterns; rules; functional rules; recursive rules;) Publication date (15/12/2009)
Different subtraction number sentences
Students solve different forms of subtraction equations. Keywords (number sentences; equations; subtraction; equality;) Publication date (11/12/2009)
Different addition number sentences
Students solve different forms of addition equations. Keywords (number sentences; equations; addition; equality;) Publication date (11/12/2009)
Continue the shape patterns
Students find the next three shapes in several growing shape patterns and explain how they worked out the shapes. Keywords (spatial patterns; growing patterns; rules; functional rules; recursive rules;) Publication date (01/06/2001)
Tens frames to twenty
Students use tens frames to show how to add and take away numbers to 20. Keywords (addition; subtraction; tens frames;) Publication date (08/12/2009)
Machine rules II
Students use given numbers to work out rules for number machines. Keywords (rules; addition; multiplication;) Publication date (08/12/2009
Beach clean-up
Task: Answer questions about rubbish picked up on a beach, and suggest reasons why plastic is the most common rubbish. Assessment focus: reading and interpreting data from a table. Keywords (properties; plastic; rubbish; tables; interpreting tables; key competencies; peer assessment;) Publication date (09/12/09)
Boiling water
Task: Students decide on the variables that will make an experiment about boiling water a fair test. Assessment focus: Recognising multiple variables. Keywords (changes; boiling; fair testing; variables;) Publication date (09/12/2009)
Freezing water
Task: Plan an investigation to find out which of two students' predictions is correct, and identify how to recognise what a result would look like. Assessment focus: identifying what to measure or compare to answer a science question. Keywords (changes; freezing; water; ice; planning; peer assessment;) Publication date (04/12/2009)
Melting point
Task: Students decide if a statement is correct and then give a reason for their answer. Assessment focus: Using science ideas to explain a view. Keywords (chemistry and society; properties; melting point; candles;) Publication date (04/12/2009)
Hot water cylinder
Task: Students answer a multi choice question and draw and explain their understandings about heat convection in a hot water cylinder. Assessment focus: Using science ideas to explain heat convection. Keywords (using physics; energy; heat; convection; density; hot water cylinder;) Publication date (02/12/2009)
Evaporating water
Task: Students make predictions about evaporation rates of instances where surface areas are a factor, select which variable is being investigated in both examples, and explain their answer. Assessment focus: Using knowledge of surface area to make predictions. Keywords (changes; evaporation; water; surface area; fair testing; prediction;) Publication date (26/11/2009)
Acids and bases
Task: Students read a pH scale to determine how it shows the increasing strength of an acid and a base solution and decide from different pH products what the effect would be on an acidic soil. Assessment focus: interpreting a pH scale. Keywords (pH scale, acids, bases, alkalis, solutions, neutralisation;) Publication date (04/11/2009)
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