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DIY World Records 22 Reviews

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Ania C
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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Students used sports equipment and the school obstacles course for challenges .
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Use some of the physical ideas for commonwealth games unit
How many DIY World Records did your class make?
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measuring distances, timing to the milli second.
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“Students had fun creating their own records.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Roanna R
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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? A lot of the world record ideas the kids came up with were physical based. The kids were outside running, hopping, doing cartwheels and rollie pollies! We also did skipping and sprint races.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I think we will build this a into our week if possible because the learning that is coming from it is huge.
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Encourages a lot of mathematical thinking! Students were practising counting skills, how best to measure something either with time or counting amount. Having to use stop watches and stop it after certain time and recording results.
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“This is a fabulous kit! My year 1-2 class were fully engaged in making world records it was great to watch. The team work and problem solving that comes with creating and attempting a world record is amazing. I was very impressed with both the kit and my kids using this! They learnt a lot about measurement and counting throughout. The resources that come with the kit are also great and so beautiful! We will be continuing with this next term as the kids are asking for it each day and it is so much fun! I like that the kids can control the challenge level for there world record until they are comfortable to try something different.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Leanne S
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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? One student stopped dead in her tracks one day as she overheard me saying we were doing maths. She said "is this maths?"She had not made the connection at all but was highly engaged. There were many discussions throughout the 3 weeks we used the kit so it
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? How to display data. I took the opportunity to build on a previous stats lesson and got them to make stem & leaf plots to show the data they had collected.
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? There were many discussions about measurement. How we would measure it, what were we actually measuring. The overall concept of measurement was at the heart here and through it they learnt about time, length, height, number and for one group decibels! We
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“Right from the moment the skateboarding dog came onto the screen I knew I had them hooked. The DIY World Records kit has many possible ways in which to explore measurement and statistics. You can go super prescriptive or open it right up. I opened it right up and allowed students to make plenty of mistakes so that they could figure out the concepts and problem solve as they went. There was much fun and laughter to go alongside the learning and every student took part and was engaged.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Tim C
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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Social sciences.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Understanding of measurement has been enhanced.
How many DIY World Records did your class make?
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? They had to work together to ensure WRs were achievable, using correct units of measurement.
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“It covered a whole range of learning opportunities….measurement, literacy, etc. This was the first time many students had been exposed to the notion of ‘ world records’.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Morgan R
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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 have an integrated curriculum and this worked well for our Maths (statistics) and Health/PE classes
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students are now learning how to display data, and how to plan their own investigations to collect data.
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Students were able to understand what data is and how to collect it accurately, and analyse it appropriately. This strengthened their analysis/conclusion because they understood the idea of a piece of data related to an individual's world record attempt.
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“I work at a middle school and requested this kit for our lower level learners in Year 7. It was a fun, interactive way to engage students in statistical ideas. They learnt how to accurately collect and record data.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Cara M
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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Some found it difficult to create a record that was actually doable.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Unsure, will explore this in future terms.
How many DIY World Records did your class make? 20?
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measuring, counting, timing
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“Although a great resource, it took a lot of effort to figure out some of the components of the kit and adapting it to suit our children.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Sophie W
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We have been learning about growth mindset and the importance of it. This challenge was a good one to practice having that growth mindset and applying it in a specific context. It was also great to see students working together and encouraging each other
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The biggest win to come from this kit is the confidence it gave to students to take a risk and get involved in something they maybe usually wouldn't. Good to see each students strengths shine and I feel this will help them in their learning moving forward
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We were doing measurement this term which ties in really nicely with the measurable component of the records. The tape measure was great for students to practice measuring lengths in a different context and with a different instrument. The egg timer stimu
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“Great kit - well put together and easy to follow.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Dawn B
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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 engaged in physical challenges such as hula hooping and skipping. They loved the challenges. The also learned some science through looking at things like dice stacking and giant paper plane making.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More group collaboration
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Some fantastic estimations, measuring of length and time. Great contextual learning.
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“This was a fun kit that the students really enjoyed learning with. The activities were fun and engaging. The students loved watching the world record videos and coming up with questions that they would ask them. I will definitely use this resource again.”
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Posted 2 years ago
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