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English abbreviations

Code Strand Mode Level Resource type

Description / Keywords

Wl2549 Making meaning Reading 4 bcr To Spray or Not to Spray?
This comprehension task assesses student ability to evaluate the ideas and information in a transactional text about an environmental issue. Students are asked to read a text, then respond to four questions.
Keywords (comprehension; evaluating; transactional; School Journal; persuasion;)
Publication date (02/10/2006)
WL2650 Making meaning Reading 5 bcr What is it?
This comprehension task involves a poem being disclosed in stages. It assesses a student's ability to use evidence in the poem to predict what it could be describing.
Keywords (comprehension; inference; synthesis; prediction; self assessment; poem; School Journal; visualising;)
Publication date (26/08/05)
WL3706 Creating Meaning  Writing 2/3/4/5 sra Transactional writing – Writing a recount
Students use this assessment guide to assess their writing of a recount. Teachers select the desired criteria before printing off the guides. There is a student's and a teacher's guide - this one has more examples to use as models for the criteria.
Keywords (self-assessment; peer-assessment; recount; checklist; learning intentions guide;)
Publication date (08/09/2004)
VL4152 Making meaning Viewing / Presenting 3 bcr/lcr/prac Paikea – Part 1
In Part 1, students interpret how the visual techniques used in the presentation of a Maori legend support the meaning of the written text. In Part 2, students are assessed on their ability to communicate and explain their use of visual techniques. Annotated student work samples using Part 2 are provided.
Keywords (movement; shape; symbols; static image; comprehension; mood; work samples;)
Publication date (15/06/05)
OL0018 Making meaning Listening 3 bcr Finding your way
Students listen to instructions on where to go when visiting the mall then draw the path to be taken on a map and recall specific information. The assessment focus is on listening, recall, and following instructions
Keywords (listening comprehension; instructions; recall;)
Publication date (09/06/2004)
MATHEMATICS BANK

Maths abbreviations

Code Strand Achievement Objective Level Resource type

Description / Keywords

NM1221 Number and Algebra Number strategies 3/4 lcr Estimation or not?
Students decide which children are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning
Keywords (estimation; addition; concept cartoons; discourse;)
Publication date (30/03/2007)
ST9419 Statistics Probability 3 bcr Dart combinations
Students identify possible combinations of scores from a dart thrown at a target. They also find the lowest possible score and individual throws from a given total score.
Keywords (combinations;)
Publication date
(15/06/2003)
NM1237 Number and Algebra Number strategies 3 Prac Fraction Soup
Students select the correct fraction of vegetables to click and drag into a soup pot.
Keywords (fractions; fractions as operators; animation; sets)
Publication date (27/09/2005)
MS2131 Geometry and Measurement Measurement 3 bcr Correcting mistakes
Students identify the error in three statements made about the perimeter and area of given objects.
Keywords (area;)
Publication date (20/04/2001)
AL7111 Number and Algebra Equations and expressions 2 bcr Balance pan
Students draw in the correct number of blocks needed to balance some scales and write equations for scales that show balance.
Keywords (equality; number sentences)
Publication date (10/07/2006)
NM1255 Number and Algebra Number strategies 2 bcr Going on camp
Students solve subtraction story problems and show their strategies.
Keywords (subtraction;)
Publication date (06/06/2008)
NM1239 Number and Algebra Number strategies 2 lcr Equal sharing
Students break given numbers into equal sized groups. Students must show their working.
Keywords (equal sharing; partitioning; division)
Publication date (30/03/2007)
SCIENCE BANK

Science abbreviations

Code Strand Contextual Strand Level Resource type

Description / Keywords

PE9534 Understanding about science Planet Earth 5 bcr Pïkao (or Pïngao)
Students read an article about an investigation into the sustainable harvest of pïkao and identify key features of the investigation. Assessment focus: interpreting information about how scientists work.
Keywords (Earth systems; sustainability; conservation; investigation; pikao; pingao;)
Publication date (30/11/2005)
PW3505 Knowledge Physical world 3 bcr Heating metal and wood
Task: explain the effect of temperature on metal and wood. Assessment focus: the effect of heat on different materials
Keywords (physics concepts; energy; heat; conduction; metals; wood;)
Publication date (07/06/2005)
LW2015 Communicating in science Living world 4 bcr Rocky shore food web
Task: Students answer questions about feeding relationships in a rocky shore ecosystem. Assessment focus: interpreting a food web.
Keywords (ecology; interdependence; food chains; food webs; diagrams; rocky shore; key competencies;)
Publication date (02/06/2006)
PW3688 Investigating in science  Physical world 2 pra Rolling marbles
Task: select a card to show how to control the variables of an investigation into the rolling distance of marbles on different surfaces. Assessment focus: controlling variables.
Keywords
(fair testing; controlling variables; friction; marbles;)
Publication date (01/10/2004)
PE9094 Investigating in science Planet Earth 2 pra Shadow animation
Students view an on-line animation on how shadow length changes as the Sun moves into different positions and answer questions about this.
Keywords (astronomical systems; shadows; animation; models;)

Publication date (09/04/2003)

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