DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Children had to understand how time works, and it led nicely into measurement.

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

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Maths, Reading, Writing

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, Engaging, Exciting

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Children had the most fun stacking as many large dominos as possible in 30seconds.

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

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25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths, Social Studies, Science

“This kit was really awesome it was cool for the children to see what it took to complete a world record. It tied in nicely with our olympics study and children were able to see the kinds of skills that it took athletes to complete and accomplish somethng.”

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Posted 6 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Considering the measurement aspect of things was quite cool for my class. We also were able to have mathematical conversations that gave me insight to their understanding without them necessarily realising that we were having them. We also had to consider different types of measurement units, which encouraged critical and creative thinking.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We have talked about superlatives and used the formula as a way to help us create our speech topics to ensure they were specific and unique.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, Unique, Active

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most Successful Drop Goals While Blindfolded in One Minute

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

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25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Speeches this term, linking maths and PE

“We used the DIY World Records Kit over a couple of days at the end of Term 3. It both offered a fun piece of 'outside the norm' learning for our class, and a chance to learn some new skills. The class had a great time and created some really awesome world records!!”

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Posted 6 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Yes, engaging and active measurement activities.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? They have made us think of more innovative ways of working.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging Active Innovative

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Not sure as not my class.

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

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25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Not much as was complete in Math's lessons only.

“The resources were very good. However, as a full Secondary School, we found it difficult to use the resources to their full potential in 1 hour, purely Maths, slots.”

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Posted 6 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Had a perfect range of activities to encourage mathematical thinking with the students. It was especially helpful with consolidating measuremnet concepts with my lower ability students that often find trying to visulalise mathematics use in everyday life. Students were highly engaged.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Future opportunities came about with our PE unit for athletics and cross country.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? engaging, effective, authentic

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Own creation of boat / raft that would float the longest. The students that took part had to consider use of materials to build the boat / raft, what materials float best? What impact does the weather have in particular wind? There were so many different factors that they did not consider when starting this project.

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Technology, P.E. Science

“This kit was perfect for integrating with our mathematics unit on Measurement while aso looking at the Games. This provided a lot of discussion around world records, how they are challenged and presenting their statistical data. Had some interesting ideas for world record attempts.”

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Posted 6 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? They would debate distances and measurements within their groups. It reinforced using different measuring devices and there were lots of discussions around comparing cm, m, mm as different groups would record in diffeerent ways. The graphing was fun and we they were really engaged in creating them on google sheets. Using decimals, percentages, and sometimes fractions required some discussion and teaching.There was so much going on I could have started last term and continued into this term.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Being able to research world records and finding out about the people involved was something kids wanted to do. Using sports and physical activities through maths would be a great way to engage more children. Even those that did not like running, would give these a go just to see how fast or slow a time was.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? engaging, purposeful, exciting

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Two of my children challenged each other to say the most hello's in different languages in 1 minute. They spent time learning some and testing and finding shorter ones to say more. We have a very multi-cultural classroom with some chn who don't speak alot a English. They would smile to hear their language being said and helped to pronounce the words more accurately.

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

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25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Literacy, social sciences, maths, using computers, languages, P.E, health, social skills.

“What an great resource! The class were so engaged and loved the activities. They enjoyed finding out about lots of different world records and trtying to see how well they could do. Most of my kids are sporty and had watched the games earlier in the year. They would time themselves trying to score the most goals from the furtherest distance on our basketball court. The excitement as they improved was fantastic. The resource helped with measurement skills and statistics. It was easy to use and we could adapt it for different levels of learning.”

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Posted 6 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Statistics and measurement were well integrated throughout the unit

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Class had a great culture arise from working along side each other in the tasks

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, relationship building

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Bottle flipping blindfolded

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

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25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? As above

“The students were really engaged in the process and this unoit worked well alongside the Olympic Games. We incorporated statistics which integrated well across the curriculum.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Good use of measurement skills.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Hmm, not sure yet.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, competitive, creative.

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Speed tree climbing was a hit.

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Language and parts of speech.

“Students really enjoyed pouring over Guiness World Records books and then applying what they saw to their own world and ideas.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Students had to work to compare timing and durations along with calculating averages, etc.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students expressed curiosity about the science and techniques behind breaking real-world records, sparking ideas for research on topics.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? active, engaging, perseverance

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most Consecutive Tongue Twisters Said Without Mistakes

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Literacy, physical education, mathematics

“This is an absolute gem! It’s a fantastic way to engage students with fun, hands-on activities that inspire creativity and teamwork. The materials are well-organized, easy to use, and adaptable for different needs. Our class had a blast attempting the challenges, and it sparked some great discussions about goal-setting and perseverance.”

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Posted 7 months ago