How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? It got them to think of things that would be challenging but realistic.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? For us we moved on.

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measuring distances, and recording statistics.

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

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“We enjoyed using the kit. It was delayed over a two term period with Covid and illness delays. We probably didn't get as much out of it as we could have. But it culminated in two days of fun events. The maths link for us wasn't as clear.”

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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? Writng - students wrote about their world record Reading - reading about other world records around the world through Guiness Book of Records etc Maths- counting, measuring Science - forces and motions

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Different brain games Making playlists Chn creating their own games at break time Learning to time keep

How many DIY World Records did your class make? One

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measuring, number knowledge

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“Very wordy and difficult to follow”

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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? Lots of cross curricula with the writing instructions/rules, reading rules/ listening to the rules/PE with all the movement and lots of learning around key competencies - relating to others/managing self - winning and losing.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Lead well into Athletics!

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measuring using rulers/tape measures/timers

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“Children enjoyed creating their own World Record”

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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? Wonderful unit to end the Commonwealth Games with.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? There has been a lot of further investigating around world records, looking up and exploring different concepts of world record setting around the world and discussing how records are impacted by culture, economics and resources.

How many DIY World Records did your class make?

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? There was a lot of estimating, time keeping, scoring and measuring.

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“DIY World Records was an excellent school kit that every child enjoyed and teachers enjoyed delivering. It was well resourced and structured and really met the needs of all learners easily. Each child created their own world record then we voted on the top 7 and those developers recruited an adjudicator and a timer. We held two sessions of world record breaking, with two classes hosting and 2 participating and then swapped over the roles.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? They loved the language involved in writing their record. We also tied it into some of our science learning with one group doing how many exploding film canisters could they do in one go

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Some students have been continuing their records on - challenging others to break them and have refined their measurement skills. We also encouraged other classes to get involved just by them being curious about what we were doing.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? There was a lot of thinking about what they were going to measure - time, distance, height etc. It also caused discussion on how they were going to measure - some used stopwatches, rulers, tape measure or less conventional means - cubes, steps, counting

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

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“Great programme, engaging and fun for the whole class.”

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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? -

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Definitely a keenness for more hands on learning.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Yes it did however the communication skills that were developed during this task were amazing.

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“This was my first kit and I was really impressed with the quality of the resources. The kids were really excited and got into the tasks effortlessly and was a bit of fun and purposeful at the same time.”

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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? Applying our math learning to different and real world contexts. Getting physically active in new and exciting ways. Literacy involved in the description of the records; coming up with ways to modify records.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students got very interested in current world records. Using it as a basis for developing goals: what do we want to achieve and what steps do we need to take in order to get there? Encouraging a growth mindset, not just giving up after one attempt.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It fitted in really well with our math focus of measurement and statistics. A stopwatch would have been an awesome addition but it was good to explore other ways to measure time (as well as the other superlatives). Students felt important when they had th

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“Our class loved the hands on nature of this school kit. I used the achievable world records as a hook in- we watched some videos then went and gave the fastest heel to toe walk one a go. Students became a little bit confused when we introduced the coloured cards (mostly with the term superlative) so we had to go over that a few times before brainstorming. We had fun adding the 'something silly' but kept it within the constraints of what we had available to us within school. Great to see children who are usually hesitant in PE, participating in the physical activity of it all. Also loved the fact maths was heavily involved in this too but in a hands on way.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? It was intergrated through Reading, Maths and Writing.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Making further challenges and world records.

How many DIY World Records did your class make?

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It was a great way to tie in Maths/Decimals/Time etc.

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“Children were very engaged and loved setting their world records.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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