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DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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Susan N
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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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Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? How to measure something with the appropriate unit.
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? 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
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, 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 11 months ago
David B
Verified Reviewer
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.
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, active, inclusive
What was the most unique record achieved and why? *
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 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 11 months ago
Shanon B
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Thinking about measurements and converting them.
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? Seen where the students have misconceptions around converting and measurement.
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, 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
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 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 11 months ago
Anna B
Verified Reviewer
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?
Not Successful At All
Neutral
Very Successful
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? None
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, 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
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? 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 11 months ago
Susan F
Verified Reviewer
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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Neutral
Very Successful
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?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
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
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? 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 11 months ago
Nicola W
Verified Reviewer
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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Very Successful
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
Neutral
Very High
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
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, 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 11 months ago
Meredith M
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measurement, use of superlatives and understanding what each word meant, comparing measurements
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? Lots of new language to learn, new ideas for more records, research projects about record holders
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, crazy, engaging
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most bear crawls done using one arm and two legs in 60 seconds while singing the alphabet backwards. This one definitely got the most laughs and the worst fails haha
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? Technology, English, Maths, Science, Art
“My class really enjoyed this kit. We all loved the sectre formula to help us create some (very) wacky record challenges! The resources made the kit really engaging and my students could't wait to try and set, and then break each others records. There was something in this kit for every learning level.”
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Posted 11 months ago
Rosemary L
Verified Reviewer
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? The students were encouraged to expand their thinking and try different ways to figure things out that they may not have thought of, which has definitely helped encourage mathematical thinking for them.
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? Lot's of ideas have come from this kit like how to introduce similar projects with other year levels and get the kids more immersed in tasks that encourage both thinking skills and physical activity.
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, creative, challenging
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Too many to choose from!
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?
Not likely
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Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths, science, physical education, STEAM
“Such a cool, creative resource for students to expand their mathematical thinking and exposes them to different ways of thinking/new strategies.”
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Posted 11 months ago
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