How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? PE and maths (measuring jumps, hopping). Oral language - generating ideas for world records. Writing - we wrote about our experiences.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Create more physical challenges and then measure the results. We only did 6 challenges but there was a substantial amount of work around that. I am looking forward to fitting in more challenges during the year.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We used the tape measure to measure the length of our jumps and compared the measurements to show which jump was the longest. We discussed the different units we could measure length in (mm, cm, m). We used the sand timers to time some of our records.

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“Thank you for a great kit to use with the children. They were so excited to be competing for their own world records and we got lots of measurement and vocabulary in as well. The children also had the opportunity to take on roles of responsibility (referee, timekeeper, videographer (we filmed all of our challenges and shared the result with whānau on Seesaw).”

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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 students were able to link this to the commonwealth games that happened at the beginning of the term.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students are very interesting in the Olympics and watching that when it comes on.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? I found that they were really interested in the measuring aspect of the records.

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“The students loved the kit although at times I found that it was quite complicated to understand. It was also quite difficult to think of different ideas.”

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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 planning that was involved meant the tamaritki were working collaboratively sharing ideas and different methodology.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are going to organise a world record afternoon for our buddy class. Should be a lot of fun!

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? With the different tasks we used different units of measurement so it was wide reaching. Students had to be creative and we looked at standard and non-standard units of measurement.

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“Loved this kit! The students loved getting inventive with world records and it made our measurement unit meaningful and 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? We used this Kit in our Inquiry and Mathematical learning in class.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students are keen to develop some more world record to compete in. I will definitely be using this kit again. It a kit which all students can take part in.

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Students worked well recording their results in a spreadsheet and could compare results using their place value knowledge.

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“What a fantastic way to the end the Term. We did this kit during our Year 3 and 4 camp. This was a fun way to set up students challenges. All students took part and were very competitive.”

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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 really enjoyed the cross curricular aspects of this kit. We have large numbers of students learning English as an additional language and they benefitted from the time spent developing and unpacking the language they would need to write their challenge

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We will use this context in the future as part of our long term planning.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? planning, measuring, checking and verifying displaying data, using the language of measurement in realistic situations

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“This was a beautifully presented and packaged kit. The teacher material was informative and easy to adapt as needed. We had some interruptions with the Nelson floods but we incorporated our DIY attempts day into our Daily 3 maths programme over the course of a few weeks as the Maths through your feet part of our morning. Students learnt heaps about measuring accurately and being able to repeat their task. We loved the learning through play aspects of this kit. Our students became immersed in their roles and as teachers we loved the integrated nature of the kit.”

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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 engagement, teamwork, communication, language skills and a great deal of physical activity - jumping, running, balancing.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The students in my class have become more aware of what ‘breaking a record’ actually involves. This thinking had been applied to the results around us e.g in the commonwealth games.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? The timing of the challenges encouraged the students to be accurate. Comparing how many times something could be done over a 30 second period required a great deal of mathematical thinking.

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“Feedback from a year 5 student: I think doing the world record challenges the other kids designed made it more interesting and it also made you feel closer to your classmates. It was one of the few times where you can be crazy and creative at the same time. It’s also about teamwork which is part of 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? Literacy learning and application of superlatives. The students could design their World Records to be completed in the classroom, court, playground or field. Students were very active hanging from monkey bars, skipping, headstands with a cone on their fe

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Class discussions about the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, swimming sports and Record Book in the library. Use of graphing poster to record DIY World Records. Allocation of more time for students to complete each other's DIY World Records.

How many DIY World Records did your class make?

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measurement, making comparisons, statistics and problem solving.

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“Thank you, the DIY World Records 22 kit was fun and engaging for our Year 3 and 4 class. Students were full of creative ideas, and loved the badges, brainstorming cards and timers. I used this kit during a Teacher Swap day.”

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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? Definately supported tamariki with statistics, problem solving, teamwork, physical education, science and writing

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We have a longstanding class competition now for the reaction time human benchmark game - a great resrouice you suggested! We are also going to create some more world record when our playground opens next term :)

How many DIY World Records did your class make?

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? A lot of measurement skills and statistical literacy

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“My class loved the opportunity to come up with their own world records, but some suggestions got a little too crazy to actually implement. A really good opportunity for cross curricular learning and some very physical sessions breaking the records. The recourses sent out were very useful and the badges were coveted by the kids!”

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Posted 2 years ago

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