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DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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Greg K
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Hands on fun activities
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? Graphing data
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
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Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun engaging experimental
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most taps in 30sec
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 literacy
“Thanks for the resources, reallly useful and practical things to use in class. Thanks!”
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Posted 10 months ago
Tracy R
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Lots of measurement by looking at time, height, length in particular.
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? Having to persevere when things get tough and recognising that what one person makes look easy, may not be as easy as you think.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
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Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, motivating, engaging
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Quickest to build our puzzle cube in our class while blindfolded. We have had this puzzle for a while and only one or two children had mastered it. By the end of this unit, so many more people could solve it!
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? Physical Education, mathematics
“It was so amazing to see how engaged the class were when finding out about the records. They loved persevering to try and beat the current World Records, as well as go about setting their own ones. The highlight was the quickest to build our puzzle cube in our class while blindfolded. One boy got it down to only 15 seconds!”
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Posted 10 months ago
Bernadette S
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measurement - units of measurement and deciding which to use.
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
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Neutral
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Once all testing began, some saw their record was not as 'enticing' as others, and wished they'd written something different or funnier. There are requests to do this again, and we might do a shortened version of not so many records at the end of the term, for a fun PE for a couple of weeks.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
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Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? hilarious, precise, fair
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Probably, the hanging from the monkey bars with a dice balanced on your head. (Sounded easy, but lots of attempts were in seconds)
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? Fair test in maths and science. There was considerable debate about some record attempts as the writer of them disagreed how their record was being attempted. For eg handstand while singing, was expected to be measured in steps, but some groups timed being up, and another group measured how far someone had travelled in metres (or part-metres).
“This was such engaging fun. We started on the back of the Olympics, so they wanted to do more 'regular' sports. Then we thought of some fun records we could do and voted on 4 to try out. That caught their interest and they devised some very varied records - some with equipment, some not. The trickiest part was deciding how to measure, a definite time, not 'until you can't any more'. And we could have done with more variation on the silly part of the attempt. Still, I'll know for next time. Good for measuring skills and establishing what a fair test was.”
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Posted 10 months ago
Hayley V
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? They created their questions with fun in mind but when it came to attempting the record they all had to think about how fair and how to measure their attempts.
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? How to write questions. How to make attempts valid and fair. How to engage and encourage participation.
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, physical, collaboration
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Writing with your non dominant hand while singing a nursey rhyme. Lots of discussion around vocabualary and a relisation that not everyone knew a nursery rhyme.
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? English, Statistics, PE and Health
“This was a great unit to incorporate into our Olympics Unit. Students had to work together and think critically about the wording of their records and validity.”
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Posted 10 months ago
Jessica R
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? With timing and working out who was quickest as well as graphing these on the most suitable graph.
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 encouragement in reading/researching for world records, taking notes etc.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
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Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, movement, tracking
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Completing a basketball hoop in the least amount of tries holding an egg on a spoon. Because the students cracked eggs and had a lot of fun in the process.
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, Maths, Writing, Reading
“Really awesome kit and makes students think outside the box when creating their DIY world records.”
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Posted 10 months ago
Claire D
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It tied in well to our statistics unit and with measurement as well
How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?
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Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? A lot of science learning opportunities by exploring the mechanics of how some of the world records are a, achieved, and b, can be improved upon for a better result
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
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Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, creative, competitive
What was the most unique record achieved and why? There were 2, the first was moving m&m's from one bowl to another using chopsticks held only in your non dominant hand while your dominant hand was behind your back, this was interesting because strategy came into play where finding other ways to use the chopsticks to achieve the same result made the students who don't normally use chopsticks gain the advantage over regular chopstick using students. The 2nd one was building the tallest tower using Jenga blocks while wearing oven mitts, again strategy of creating a decent base to build upon was the technique doubled with maintaining steady hands saw the best results ,
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? A mixture of Math, science, and HPE learning came through as a result of this kit
“The DIY World Records is a great kit that gets the students thinking outside the square and exploring their individual talents. It got them to push themselves in a fun and supportive way while also connecting well in to many different learning area/aspects throughout the term.”
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Posted 11 months ago
Grace B
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It was a practical way for us to learn and practice measurement (timing, estimating, calculating) while having lots of fun.
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? We will use this kit in a lot of different ways, not just for sporting goals, but for academic/personal goals too.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
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Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, challenging, rewarding.
What was the most unique record achieved and why? 3 basketball hoop shots, facing backwards, in 3 minutes.
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, PE
“We timed this kit alongside the world paralympics and it was fantastic. In my special education class we love to track world sporting events (olympics, world cups etc) and to get the students to come up with their own sporting/fitness goals alongside the paralympics was awesome!”
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Posted 11 months ago
Anonymous
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? The kit fit really well with teaching measurement in maths. It was a great tool for the students to show their understanding of measuring in different units and converting units.
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? The understanding of changing only one variable
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, Hands On
What was the most unique record achieved and why? The most amount of bean bags tossed into a bucket within a minute while blindfolded
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? Maths, PE and Science
“Our students really enjoyed coming up with their own task that others had to try set a record for. The 'silly' component was fun.”
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Posted 11 months ago
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