DIY World Records 24 Reviews

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Lots of engagement with measurement - distance, timing, speed.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Ideas for further physical challenges, exploring other records that have been achieved.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Motivating, competitive, fun

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most backwards non-stop skips with eyes closed.

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? Extended vocabulary, moment in time writing, reading about Olympics and other competitions, some physics.

“Students were highly engaged and absolutely loved working through this kit. Tied in perfectly with the Olympics! Kids were motivated by the competitive nature of the kit.”

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Posted 6 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Through the problem solving, ideation and refining of the record task. Children had to hands on measure in a variety of ways and they were eager to do this and because of the competitive nature of the kit and tasks they took this very seriously and with accuracy.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We linked this in with the olympics and of course the Guiness world record books are always a hit with our kids.

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

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most stacking cups stacked top to top, bottom to bottom, using least dominant hand while blind folded in 1 min.

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? Tied in to our inquiry, Mitey mental health, school values of pukumahi and resilience. Awesome health and PE links.

“This kit was a great way to spring in vocabulary and measurement in an interesting and engaging way. Our children loved aiming to beat the 'record' and the creation of the records really made the children extend their thinking and problem solving skills.”

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Posted 6 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Some struggled to get engaged

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Perhaps to teach more problem solving skills

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Challenging, teacher led

What was the most unique record achieved and why? How fast someone could count to 100

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

“Compared to other kits, this one was hard to grasp the concept and explain to my class. It needed to be heavily scaffolded and would need to be a whole inquiry topic.”

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Posted 6 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? A great lead to the science and math investigation process we have been working on as a whole school

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Study of the human body systems

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Great starting point

What was the most unique record achieved and why? The way we adapted the program steered away from world records and more into human anatomy

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, science, social science

“Found this kit to be a little bit on the young side for our ākonga in Y7. Although we did manage to adapt the ideas to fit our needs.”

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Posted 6 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We focused on time, measure and linked it to Stastistics, using graphs and charts to compare scores.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The importance of Guiness World Records linking to the wider world.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Cool, motivating and engaging

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Reciting the most Taylor Swift songs in 1 minute

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, Literacy, Health and Wellbeing and Science

“When we received this kit I was very impressed with the resources that came with it! Originally we were going to do in Term 2 but we held off until the Olympics had started at the beginning of Term 3 to link this to their learning. The students were very engaged and loved creating their very own world records - attempting to reach a high score! It was great that this did not all have to be based around sports so those students who are more academic focused on this context.”

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Posted 6 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? We were using the kit as an opportunity to use and build on their measurement skills.

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? Use everyday experiences as a segway to helping students understand that there is a use and meaning to what they are learning.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Loud, fun, competitiveness

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Can't think of one

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, Writing, Reading, Topic (Inquiry), Social Sciences

“It was good to have a set of possible activities to use but it also gave us leeway and the scope to create our own challenges.”

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Posted 6 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? estimating

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Wonderings about other records that have been set and researching them to find the weird and wacky records.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? fun, engaging, hands-on

What was the most unique record achieved and why? hoola hooping - we weren't expecting one of the boys to take out the title.

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? social sciences - finding out the countries where records were set.

“My class really enjoyed the tasks from the kit - making estimates, trying to beat their estimates and had lots of laughs during the process. Who thought maths would be funny?”

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Posted 6 months ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Graphing was our focus

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? What other records are there we can investigate?

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Longest burb

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 maths inquiry health pe

“A great kit that I used as part of our integrated literacy and maths through an inquiry process Thanks for the awesome materials supplied I was able to springboard other ideas from this.”

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Posted 6 months ago