DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? With all of the different measurement discussions, they were able to learn what was the best way to measure each record and to measure in different ways.

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? Adding to our records and making other ones they could try over a term and try to beat each others' results to then hold the 'World Record at Puni School'

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun Learning Resilience

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most were around the fastest time to complete something or the longest kick. The most unique would probably have been the highest sand castle made within 50 seconds with honey on your hands. Honey was then changed to soap as we didn't want to use honey. This was definitely an interesting challenge that not many groups wanted to try out.

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? Learning to positively interact with others - a lot of resilience and self control. This fits with our school expectations. Cross curricular to Literacy, Mathematics, and Topic based learning.

“Students absolutely loved this kit. They were learning so much about winning, losing, trying, creating, recording, measuring, and way more. As they worked in pairs to attempt the records, they learnt how to communicate with each other more effectively and to be able to give someone else their attention.”

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Posted 11 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Real life application of measurement skills with a purpose and practical end product.

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 work on measuring and following up by using different types of language features in writing.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Detailed, fun and supportive

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Quickest 25m run with a book on your head - combined skill and 'silly' element which was very popular with the class.

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 sport, countries, sentences and figurative language as well as measurement. Co-operation and collaboration were evident too.

“It was the perfect kit to use just after the Olympic games as my Year 5/6 class were engaged and interested in the world records that had been set by the athletes. They enjoyed the collaborative aspect of being in pairs to create their DIY record, and then sharing these with the class to attempt. The curriculum integration was excellent with an audience for the literacy aspect and real life application for maths. Thank you so much for all the online resources that could be used to support the tasks. The kit was so full of high quality objects to use! All of this saved so much time for me and was much appreciated.”

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Posted 11 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? The students recorded results, collated data and displayed it so they could share with others. We used the data to learn about mean, median, mode and range.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This learning did not stay within the term we had planned it for, it extended into the next term. It helped us to better understand and introduce the work we did around the Olympics and Paralympics.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, curiosity and learner led.

What was the most unique record achieved and why? The quickest jumps backwards repetitively with a pencil moustache for 7M because this was a fun activity that the students could have gotten silly with but they took it really seriously.

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? Physical Education, Literacy, Technology

“The kids have absolutely loved working with this kit so much so that we have decided to extend this into the next term. We love how this kit allowed us to explore statistics in a fun and hands on way.”

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Posted 11 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Was great as it tied into this terms measurement unit. It assisted with practical teaching and application of time, distance and ordering.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? As, stated in the review, this kit acted as a springboard for a week long task where the students worked in groups to create their own Olympic Sport.

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

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Throwing a beanbag onto a chair, continually moving the chair farther away. It was just overall really fun and the kids got very competative.

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, Maths, History (Olympic), Writing

“The DIY World Records became the springboard for an amazing creative project where we had our year 5/6 students creating their own Olympic Sports. We used the basis of the kit for inspiration and used several of the activities to front load. The outcome was awesome. Our students then went on to teach their games to younger tamariki.”

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Posted 11 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Students took ownership and were engaged

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? They love reading about the Guiness World Records and connecting World Records with this years' Olympics.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, Engaging and Real-World

What was the most unique record achieved and why? We did World Records with Potatoes e.g. Fastest potato to roll 100m down a hill.

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? Superlatives, Olympics

“I thought the materials provided were super cute and definitely helped with student engagement. It was great to have active measurement lessons and relate Maths to English with superlatives etc.”

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Posted 11 months ago

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

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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 11 months ago

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

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? Making sure the children are precise with measurements and clear in their thinking. Cooperative skills.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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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?

5 or less

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 11 months ago

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

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? Olympics

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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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?

5 or less

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 11 months ago