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DIY World Records 22 Reviews

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Anna
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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 tied this to writing and a measurement unit
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students continued to independently create challenges and time each other
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Students had to use two types of measurement - distance, height, time, etc We also graphed results
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“My students struggled to create realistic records initially so we had a bit of a dry run. The stationery provided excited the students and they loved using the timers”
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Posted 2 years ago
Christine W
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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 children climbed trees to read passages of their books aloud, some hung upside down from the jungle gym and sang the alphabet backwards. Some children ran around the field playing their recorders - so music, maths, PE, Reading.... it was all there!
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This unit coincided with our athletics programme at school so we have done research on world records in all athletic events and also compared heights etc of the athletes. WE researched the weirdest records set and they did a project on a record that inter
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We had to measure distance and time. We ordered records and examined decimal numbers.
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“What an incredible and fun kit! We loved it! It was great maths outside that was creative and heaps of fun. It was a challenge to make our records unique - we really enjoyed looking at all of the video clips too! The kids were engaged, motivated and really enjoyed creating their own records.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Rochelle
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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 linked health and PE with mathematical calculations. They created posters to for class members to explain how the record would work
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? N/a
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Students used the tape measure to mediate distance/length
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“Such a great kit. Students loved learning and researching about different world records and then creating their own.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Jade L
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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 great.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Maths, Geography, Reading
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Yes
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“Have not completed this - but would be especially a great resource to use around Olympics or Commonwealth Games time.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Paula 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? The children were really interested in reading about other world records.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The children continued to explore 'world records' and set up their own challenges
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It was a fantastic way to incorporate maths in a fun learning situation e.g. measuring how far students had jumped, counting letters written in a minute, using timers/stopwatches
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“What an amazing kit. The kids absolutely loved doing this.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Natasha O
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The options available encouraged all the learners to be outside and moving.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We have kept coming back to the poster over the year and the learners try and beat their world records.
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Accurate measuring, working together to solve problems, justifying thinking
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“The ākonga were so engaged and determined to beat the world records! There was a lot of discussion about other records we could try and break - definitely appealed to my competitive bunch that's for sure!”
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Posted 2 years ago
Jess
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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? Maths and PE!
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I haven't undertaken any sorry
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? They did a statical investigation for the records.
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“The kids really enjoyed doing this and coming up with ideas of what records they could make!”
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Posted 2 years ago
Anne
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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 haven't used it, it didn't arrive.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Please send us the kit, we are still keen to use it.
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? I would like to receive the kit to be able to answer these question, School Kits are fantastic and I was looking forward to this one in particular.
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“As previously stated, my kit never arrived. I downloaded the right information, it said it was on the way, but it didn't arrive. I would still love to use it.”
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Posted 2 years ago
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