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DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We had to figure out ways to measure the different records the students came up with, which meant exploring different units of measurement, especially if we didn't factor time into our records.
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? This kit was a great springboard into chat about the Olympics, which is coming up next term.
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, Engaging, Challenging
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Highest card tower - it was the most challenging for our kids
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? Other than maths and literacy, the big one for us was social sciences - while exploring the current records through GNR, we had a lot of conversations about countries and different cultures around the world.
“This kit is a fantastic, fun and super engaging kit to do with children of all ages. My Year 6-8 class loved this kit, although we primarily used it with our Year 6 cohort. We had a lot of fun exploring some of the current Guinness World Records, especially the really odd ones before we had a go at creating our own. What followed was four weeks of record-breaking competition, of all types! A great way to incorporate many areas of the currilcum.”
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Posted 11 months ago
Helen P
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? measurement of time and distances mainly - but encouraged lots of discussion around math vocabulary and terms.
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? This has been an opportunity to 'front-load' my English language learners. They have been able to go back to class and share their success with others. It has also made them experts to share this experience with others in their class.
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,active, involving
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Keeping a feather in the air, with their breath. Not sure if it was that unique, but it was fun for my groups and lots of language around floating, blowing, fluttering etc.
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, Literacy, English language learning.
“Great resource - I have used this with a math and language focus for my English Language Learners. The cards are helpful as prompts for them to put together sentences and think of the parts they will need to include. In addition we were able to use math language alongside the records that the students were measuring - made it a fun activity to boost their language and learning.”
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Posted 11 months ago
Bronte T
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? The kids were so engaged in the concept of the records that they were using everything accurately and efficiently, and didn't really even notice it was real maths
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? The process of writing the records has shown me the students need to work on their sentence structures
How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
Neutral
Very High
What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? precise, inspiring, motivating
What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most skips with a rope in 30 seconds, while spelling supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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
Likely
Very likely
What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Writing (sentence structures),
“This kit is fantastic to incorporate maths into topic learning without the kids even realising! My students very quickly took on the roles of judges, timers, measurers, etc. and did it with precision to ensure accurate records. I was very impressed by the quality of the resources, and the digital versions were great too as I was able to share the kit with a team member who did it with her own class. Will definitely be using this kit again!”
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Posted 1 year ago
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