DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We did statistical investigation, reading the time, using the timer, recording the decimal numbers for times.

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? Finding the gap in students in terms of converting the seconds to minutes.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, enoyable.

What was the most unique record achieved and why? dance competition

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? Health and PE

“The students enjoyed the impromptu fun challenges and worked pretty well in competing with each other.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Using measuring equipment accurately and consistently. Comparing time and distance was also a great learning experience.

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? Succint writing to get the correct message across. Communication.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Transferring water from one container to another using a teaspoon. This was unique becasue everyone could have a go so it became very competitive.

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 and Writing along with collaboration and communication

“Our class of year 7/8 learners really enjoyed the process of developing world records that our peers could attempt. We learned alot about how to define actions and rules for our records. It was a great way to move through the editing and recrafting process without actually realising that was what we were doing! Attempting the records across our class was fun and we learned alot about communication and officiating.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Coming up with ways of measuring their record and with what unit to measure it in.

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 measure something with the appropriate unit.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Imaginative, collaborative, engaging

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Reciting the alphabet backwards whilst hopping on a moon hopper.

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, Inquiry, Writing, PE

“An interesting and engaging kit with lots of turns and twists to make the record. Students engaged and excited to make their own world records.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We used the activities to support our measurement learning. We also used to to support our time over distance calculations

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? Due to having to move on quickly there has been limited chance for students to question and explore this year.

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

What was the most unique record achieved and why? *

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? We had s mall amount of time to link country studies aswell

“I found the kit to be well resourced and with the actvities on the website it worked well in my class. I would have liked to have spent more time on it. However due to a chancge from my school I ended up shortening it up”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Thinking about measurements and converting them.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Seen where the students have misconceptions around converting and measurement.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Jump lilypads while naming countries, cities, states, continents with one eye closed while throwing and catching a ball. Students found this difficult and interesting and had a lot to say about this when sharing bac.

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? Inquiry interest, writing topic ideas and reading articles and stories related to world records.

“This was a very engaging and entertaining kit. They students struggled in the beginning with the idea of superlatives and how to write each part then add in the superlative in. The students really enjoyed mixing all the different parts of the world record to make new ones up. Once we had done all the teaching around this, they very much enjoyed trying and completing the records.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Figuring out what they were measuring, how to measure it, what units etc

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? None

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, challenge, winning

What was the most unique record achieved and why? The longest whistle on an inward breath while standing on one leg

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? Looking into olympics, athletes, what makes a good athlete, nutrition, training etc

“My class of Y5/6 had a fun time creating and trying out others world records!”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It was an opportunity to apply our statistical learning by finding ranges and recording the events used measurement. Reading minutes and seconds on the stopwatch reinforced our learning about how you say digital numbers.

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? I would use this type of scenario again for statistics.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? thoughtful, fun, active,

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Of the ones done so far - the one using our climbing wall was the most unique since the equipment is specific to our school.

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? This linked to our inquiry about the Olympics, as well as English and Statistics.

“Thinking about how to define the details of the world records was a real challenge for some members of the class before the actual events. However, there was great learning about the need for precise definitions once we actually staged the events.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Great for measuring distance and timing for planning what might work and collecting results on the day.

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 an opportunity to plan a tournament for other classes. Learning about time and statistics. Collecting data for an investigation and graphing results and interpreting

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, easy and competive

What was the most unique record achieved and why? The fastest time walking with feet like measuring in feet, one end to the next, balancing a book on your head in 10 metres.

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, Health and PE

“The students enjoyed the kit and making records using the secret formula. The kit provided everything and I loved that the teacher guide made it easy to follow with the links.”

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Posted 1 year ago