DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? accuracy of time, counting and measurement was very important to create an accurate record.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It has given many of my kids more confidence to give things a go. Everyone can be best at something

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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

What was the most unique record achieved and why? longest holding a bridge or most books balanced on your head, the bridge as the longest was over 9 min, 15 books.

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? maths, writing, science

“The kids loved this world record kit. We tied it into the olympics and the kids designed their own records. When they each had at least 6 other chikldren attempt their records we grapghed the results using a variety of graphs. The record beating bunting is hung around our classroom making it look super festive.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? A little bit of measurement, but not really.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Making sure the children are precise with measurements and clear in their thinking. Cooperative skills.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Challenge, measurement, thinking

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Jumping through hoops while singing happy birthday - a fun challenge.

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? Maths and literacy.

“This was a good unit of fun for the kids in relation to the Olympics”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Helped them to learn measurement, time, stats, probability

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Olympics

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

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Card towers - many different ways towers were built

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? Olympics, Math, Reading, Writing, Oral Language

“This kits was great. When the children understood what we were doing they really got into it. Tied in great with the Olympics, statistics and probability when doing these challenges set by their peers.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? They could see the practical applications/connections

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We could easily push this further and perhaps engage the full school in a challenge. Students would need to work on a safety plan and learn about how to organise a large number of people.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? creative, engaging, different

What was the most unique record achieved and why? The most blue objects touched in 60 seconds running with feet while yelling I am a gold fish

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? understanding superlatives, connections to the olympics/sport, maths - measurement

“My students really enjoyed and looked forward to our world-record sessions. It was a great mix of learning concrete skills like measurement but with a solid dose of whimsey and creative problem-solving. It really my my learners think deeply and consider what needed to be involved. Was also great timing to be able to connect to the olympics and see sport world records in action.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Linked to our measurement and Olympics unit really nicely.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Language work was needed with my class after this unit. We will also look at writing explanations.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, hands on, interesting

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Longest handstand against the wall while holding a banana on their feet - challenged a lot of the class with balance.

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? Maths- measurement, English- writing, explanations

“Good use of materials to try and engage the students. Nice to add the something silly to get them more involved with coming up with challenges.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Using diffrent forms of measurement

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Learning about different records around the world.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? engaging, student - led

What was the most unique record achieved and why? n/a

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? literacy and pe

“Really enjoyed this kit to link in with olympics.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? This was critical to the unit of work we were completing and very relevant to get them thinking, problem solving and sharing their understanding.

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? Students are now using the information gathered to support our upcoming athletics - Run, jump, Throw event.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, Motivational, Challenging

What was the most unique record achieved and why? The amount of marshmallows that could go into a small glass jar. The results varied as to whether your squashed or not.

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? Links to our inquiry, writing speeches to support and persuade and making connections in mathematics.

“This was an excellent opportunity for our students to combine their understanding of measurement with activities linked in our Health and Physical Education units. The amount of Mathematics and activation that students were able to connect with and given this was inline with World events made it more authentic and memorable for them.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Counting, measuring distances and time, using rates

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? Science - we are going to look into what allowed us to attempt most records: our bones and skeletons

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Original, fun, challenging

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? Literacy - in 2 languages as we are a bilingual class - students learnt to use superlatives and to be specific in the language they use to create sets of clear and indiscutable rules.

“Our inquiry was about the Olympic Games and this kit was perfect to go with it. My students felt like they had their own OG in the classroom and had great fun creating all sorts of records while developing their languages and using maths skills.”

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Posted 7 months ago