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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Lots of challenges involving physical activity with how many's and how fars...

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We explored conversion of units with students, adding and subtracting lengths and times.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It was a great hands on exploration of measurement - the kids quickly upskilled on measuring length and how to use a stopwatch for timings. MAny became very engaged by the concept of time relating to seconds and milliseconds - great learning around how un

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“Had so much fun with this kit - it carried on far longer than we had intended as the kids just did not want to stop - and the rest of the school also wanted to get in on the challenges!”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Creative thinking, maths - measuring, timing

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Creating more examples of world records, having them design activities that allow them to show cross curricular understanding

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Appropriate units of measurement, practising measuring, comparing

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“Great kit for combining different curriculum areas”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We linked it to the Commonwealth Games where we were cheerleaders for Tyler Lench in the NZ Black Ferns Hockey team. We were able to link to current events, sports, maths, written language, reading, social sciences (geography, world map, history - Commonw

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We were able to build on our learning through our PB4L learning - Quality Circle Times, Restorative Practices, etc Literacy and math will be taught in more creative and less restrictive ways - we've seen what the students can do and how we might have been

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Talk moves were finally in action! We used equipment, we converted our talk to numbers, we learned about length, time, number of repetitions, volume... The students took it to all sorts of interesting places.

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“Lots of fun - and a huge amount of learning across the curriculum. The kit was initially deceptive, but once we got into it, our years 2-3 children were very inspired - their written language was creative and their math engagement was hugely improved.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? pe is a huge focus in our school with healthy active learning and TWTW and so it was great to have another element to support this learning

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? will start the year with something similar to develop whanaungatanga

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? we try to access maths in many different areas of the curriculum and so this was perfect

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“Great base for a PE programme where effort and attitude are our main focus”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Writing instructions, reading comprehension, team work/mahitahi, physical education

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? My students wanted to look into the history of world records (ANZHC is a focus for us this year) but time did not allow it. This could be a future learning opportunity.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measurement, recording and analysing data

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“My students enjoyed exploring the colourful kit. My competitive class loved competing against each other and themselves to produce their own personal best.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths and PE

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Trying our best

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Tally. And graphs

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“Kids loved the challenge”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? maths, writing

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? goal setting

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? timers , bunting to record on

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“Our kids really enjoyed this kit. They loved the agency to create their own challenges. Some activities needed some adaption to fit the age group but this wasn’t a barrier. Thanks School Kit”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Definitely maths, I would look at incorporating this into a statistical or measurement unit next time to consolidate thinking.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This is a kit that I would love to repeat in the future. I would like to incorporate reading about world records and writing about what we have done too. It has really inspired my students to think about what they can achieve and have high expectations of

How many DIY World Records did your class make? TBC

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Looking at different types of measurement, looking at statistical concepts like reliability, validity etc

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“We have spent the last two weeks of school working on this school kit and it has been so much fun and such an engaging way to end the year. The teacher notes are awesome and made it really easy to teach this kit. My class is really looking forward to having a day of breaking world records tomorrow to end the school year.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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