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DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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Charlotte R
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? The students really had to problem solve and then revisit their predictions of what they had set for their world record and then go again
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? It has sparked interest for creating new games, challenges for fitness and PE
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, fun, entertaining
What was the most unique record achieved and why? The most pingpong balls rolled down a channel into jelly
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? PE and Fitness, Inquiry
“We used this tied into maths and on the back of the Olympics”
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Posted 7 months ago
Tamzin S
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? This helped students learn about the concepts of statistics and measurements in a fun and interactive way.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
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Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Possibly something we will do each year with students because it is a fun and engaging way for students to learn.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, Fun, Mathematical
What was the most unique record achieved and why? The longest time walking with a book balanced on top of head - required students to discuss was does "walking" look like. Decided it needed to look like a "normal" walk and students could not try to walk slowly on purpose so the book wouldn't fall.
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
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Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Students wrote about their record as a narrative. Linked in nicely with the Olympics. Maths was included through measurement and statistics. P.E, in particular with students who had physical based records.
“Very engaging for students and fit perfectly with learning about the Olympics. We did this as an end of Term activity and it was a lot of fun.”
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Posted 7 months ago
Jo P
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Using both measurement and coming up with something tangible to measure.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
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Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? coming back later to try and beat their own world records.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? fun, physical, intriguing
What was the most unique record achieved and why? sorry, can't remember (last term was a life time ago!)
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths/Phys Ed/Writing
“We used this during the Olympics this year, the class had really enjoyed watching all of our NZ team medals and were very motivated to go for their own medals!”
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Posted 7 months ago
Hannah F
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Students had to provide reasoning on why they were measuring their world record a certain way and prove this was the best way of measurement.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
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Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students being in charge of a project. Using reasoning skills, Understanding statistics and developing statistical skills.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? engaging, exciting, creative
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Hanging from monkey bars one handed for 3.22secs. Watching students trying different methods of hanging from the bars
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Inquiry - Olympics, Writing - reporting their findings/expanding vocab
“We LOVED this kit. It was amazing being provided with the necessary resources for the tasks. Students tied in their learning to that of the Olympics and even tested out their own made records on another class. They had a fantastic time exploring ideas and trailing which did and didn't work. Their creativity and imagination absolutely flourished.”
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Posted 7 months ago
Anonymous
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Counting, measuring, recording and repeating.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
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Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Creating new world records and also researching other world records.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, confusing, creative
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Balancing a cone on head and running 50m.
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Reading- researching other records and reading all about them.
“This prgramme was a really good way of teaching about how you have to measure something more than once and also making it fair and true. It was an excellent way to link to the olympic games also. Students loved parts of it.”
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Posted 7 months ago
Sophie B
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measurement, comparison, adding/totalling, counting, ratios.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
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Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Links to measurement, language features
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? engaging, involved, busy
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most birthday candles drawn on a cake in 1 minute
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We integrated it with our social science focus on the olympic games.
“This kit was a great companion to our focus on the Olympics. The pretext was engaging, and children were highly engaged in developing their own world records, and motivated to measure and record these. They enjoyed discovering a range of quirky existing records. Unfortunately, the logistics to be able to carry this out for 24 individual records was not manageable with the demands of the wider curriculum. In hindsight, I would have been better having the children work in groups to develop records, so that we had 8-12 records to work through instead. The kit provided good opportunitites for integration, and was well resourced.”
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Posted 7 months ago
Anonymous
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? How to consider accuracy and standard methods, clear instructional language with set parameters, distance, time, counting number of etc.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
Not Successful At All
Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? learning more about accurate measurement, converting measurement, researching other world records etc
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? engaging, unique, student-driven
What was the most unique record achieved and why? I am not sure actually! backwards typing alphabet was pretty quick though
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
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Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Literacy, collaboration,
“Awesome to use as a tool alongside measurement, worked well with the timing of the Olympics. Opportunity for creativity from the students which was great too”
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Posted 7 months ago
Perry M
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Lots of measurement and stats.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
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Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Flexibility in outcomes-resilience.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, adaptable, engaging
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most paper planes created and thrown through a hoop in 1 minute.
How many new DIY World Records did your class create?
5 or less
15
25+
How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?
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Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science, health.
“It was a good unit that kinda fitted in withg the Olympics. Lots of fun for the kids, escpecially the creation and running of events.”
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Posted 7 months ago
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