DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Great mathematical language within authentic contexts.

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? More record breaking/recording for learning in future.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? fun, creative, authentic

What was the most unique record achieved and why? A combination of patting head, eating popcorn within a minute.

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? The Olympics

“I don't feel like I did this kit justice - but the class did have fun and enjoyed the learning involved. They did benefit from the mathematical language used within authentic contexts. I feel like if I were to do this kit again, I would put more thought into helping my students initially come up with more easily measureable ideas, as this took a lot to refine.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? The kit components gave students the opportunities to apply mathematical thinking and go their own direction, researching and carrying out WR attempts that they had created themselves.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Piqued their interest in WR's, and the wide variety that there are. We were also able to use some of the resources when looking at other maths activities - particularly around measurement.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Interesting, Measurement, Fun

What was the most unique record achieved and why? How long can a rabbot balance a ball on it's head

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? PE, Literacy

“My students enjoyed DIY World Records 24. The lesson plan was easy to follow, and made sense. The resources worked in well with the planning, and made the activities achievable.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Provided problem solving skills in real life situations

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Best ways to keep records, graphing and displaying of results

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Collaboration, problem-solving creativity

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Speed Walking- was the most contested and rule stringent

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? Social Studies

“The DIY World Records 24 Schoolkit was a fun hands-on resource that allowed my children to get creative to create their own world record events, use their problem solving skills, while adding healthy group competition that my Year 5/6 children thrived on. The kit was well-organized, featured a variety of challenges and activities that catered to different learning styles and needs in my class. The instructions were easy to follow and all materials needed were easy to source. A fantastic resource that could easily be adapted to be used at any time of the school year!”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Pretty much everything about it involved mathematical thinking - from thinking about how they were going to carry out the experiments to assessing the results.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I've had speeches about world records, statistical investigations and even on athletics day the students were talking about breaking records.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, entertaining, challenging

What was the most unique record achieved and why? There wasn't really anything very unique done in my class

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? So much! It tied with literacy, maths, PE, science...

“My class had such fun creating their own ideas for world records! We had everything from longest finger nails (which weren't long compared to the actual record!) to how many laps around the school bike track could we do in 30 minutes”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It was great, had to apply mathematical knowledge as well and think ahead

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Currently not a lot for us

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, Student-Led, busy

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most handstands as many times as possible with eyes closed in 1 minute

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? English, mathematical thinking (measuring etc as well)

“Our students enjoyed the world records, it was great learning for them and something a bit different!”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It didn't work out for us

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It didn't really match the Olympics as I had hoped.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? fun videos, overview

What was the most unique record achieved and why? N/A

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? Dissapointing that you can't put true answers on here because you don't let people put not likely and very low.

“I found this hard. The kids struggled to put together challenges that reflected the expectations. We never ran our own olympics as it never came together. I found it not as easy to get going as the other units you have made.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Gave them many practical situations to apply maths too. They loved the whole world record jam.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Going deeper and deeper into world records and the whole history of it

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

What was the most unique record achieved and why? None were particularly unique

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? Social Sciences and Inquiry links

“This supported our learning around the Olympic Games really well - another awesome kit from the School Kit squad.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? The tape measures were well used to measure distances - talked about converting between different units and decimal units for part measures. Thinking about what was best unit to use. Statistical thinking about how to collect data and compare, wondering about different age groups, number of trials etc.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More investigations into collecting data- statistical investigations. Students want to compare their results and test their records out on other classes.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, creative, collaborative

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Highest number of felt pens able to stick into your hair- result 120. No one was expecting this greater number, possible because of unique hair style and type

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? Maths, writing, inquiry

“This kit engaged most students as there was lots of autonomy- choosing their own crazy records to test and students could follow their interests. The timing worked well with the Olympics on and world records being set. There was scope for students to take on different roles such as record attempter, timer , verifier etc. so everyone got involved. It was fun and promoted friendly competition and encouragement of each other.”

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Posted 7 months ago