How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Inventing records to attempt, thinking of wacky ideas that could be world records.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? High interest in the Guinness World records books in the library.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measuring, comparing etc.

How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?

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“I picked up this kit after our Deputy Principal wasn’t able to use hers. We didn’t get a lot done but it was very high interest.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Linked in with Athletics - lots of maths used for measurement and we wrote about it also. Students were out at break time practising.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Continue to use the kit

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Was excellent for measurement

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“We weren't able to use the kit to its full potential due to other factors but what we did use was a hit. The students loved the physical aspects and being able to measure things was a real hook into learning.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? This kit allowed the tamariki to engaged in a range of different curriculum content from key competencies, values, maths, PE, literacy, etc.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The children have understood the importance of our learning dispositions and the impact they have on our learning and success. This has been so valuable.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? This was a great kit for incorporating measurement. The children enjoyed engaging with measurement in fun ways.

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“We loved this kit and it was a real hit with the kids. Our focus for the term was 'Keep Improving Kiwi', one of our learning dispositions and this kit was the best resource for this!”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Children researched world records and what they meant. They made posters to advertise their world record attempts. They wrote creative pieces about their world record attempts. Most children attempted world records based on Physical activity as we had ath

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The kids talked about creating their own games based on their attempts.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Time was a huge focus for us so this was a great way to introduce different components of time and compare units of time. Also measurement and various units of measurement. It was a fun way to do this through movement and creativity.

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“I used this with my class as a fun alternative to our minute to win it activities. Also it was a provocation for our Time unit in Maths. This was so much fun.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The tamariki really got on board with the whole World Records idea as some of them had knowledge of these. I bought in some Guiness World Records books from home and they have been a highly coveted part of our reading library. We used the Superlatives ide

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Incorporating a World Record challenge into a sports day event or versing other classes in our syndicate/school. I might introduce next years class to our records from this year and challenge them to break them as part of our getting to know each other ac

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We had a lot of discussion about measurement and used the kit to extend a unit on this. The tamariki were excited to use the tape measures and egg timers for the activities.

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“This kit came in a box crammed full of colourful, exciting resources which really captured the tamariki's attention and interest! They immediately engaged with the idea of World Records and had some knowledge of these from books. We had a lot of fun with this kit and I look forward to using it again.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We used some bits of the kit while practicing for cross country and athletics.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It has extended on our PE class and even in Literacy like who can spell x amount of words in 1 minute

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Revisit measurements and solving math problems together

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“This is one of my favourites! My class enjoyed learning about competition, working hard to achieve personal goal and beating own’s personal record to get better!”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Inspire my reluctant readers who became very interested in the Guinness Book of Records in my class. PE - balance, technique refinement for some activities like shooting a hoop, Literacy - language features, mathematical language and terms

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Researching superlatives in nature, the biggest, longest, tallest, heaviest, loudest, smallest.... kids are really interested in the extremes.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Yes. Lots of mathematical thinking esp in the measurement strand. Reading and recording time and length, ordering time and length, thinking in seconds and milliseconds, choosing appropriate measures for different records.

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“A fabulous kit. The kids loved it. I kept it until towards the end of term 4 as a fun way to finish the year off. There was lots of fun and healthy competition. They were all engage and motivated with this kit.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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