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

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Within our school, we have a dedicated Enviro school team, so it's been great to see the engagement with discussion and problem solving around food waste. We now have bokashi bins across the school for our food waste

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? They love getting creative in the kitchen, and have lots of opportunities for this throughout our learning through play sessions, so we will certainly be making a bigger effort to use up what's in our garden/pop it into our school food pantry to share/trade with other local gardeners

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery?

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Our bokashi bins

“The tamariki have really enjoyed the range of activities and resources included in this kit. It took us a while to get into as the beginning of the year got busy, but it's linked in perfectly with so much of our learning across term 2. Our school inquiry this year is all around our connection with our community, so this kit has fit in so well. We run the Garden to Table programme in our school, so the 'Produce' section was easy to implement and will be something we can do again. The children were really engaged with the 'Find' activities. They loved the interviewing of adults at the school gate and there has been constant talk around new food places around our area.”

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Posted 6 days ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? enlightening, challenging, thought provoking

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Encouraged acknowledgement of our privileged position in NZ.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? -

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Lack of home vegie gardens in individual family homes - our walk around and inclass/across class discussions

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? looking at a within school enterprise unit over the next two terms, students are keen to grow seedlings for sale

“Students were interested in finding out about food wastage in their own homes. Some great discussions around how they needed to take responsibility for wastage within their own lunchboxes. Great research into food saviour groups and some keen interest in beginning to grow their own food to decrease food footprints. Also some great sharing within families created when children shared about fruit trees they had and how others could have their excess.”

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Posted 1 week ago

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

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? The next time I do this I will look at global issues more.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Farming Community ... feed the animals LOL

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Community fridges and food sharing stations at local churches

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Free lunches

“My students enjoyed this because it made us think about food waste and how it is mitigated in our community. Community fridges, leave and take points. You have excess from your garden, you leave and take what you do not have.”

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Posted 1 month ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Investigative, Collaborative, Action-focused

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? It helped students realise that food waste isn’t just a big global issue you hear about, it’s happening right here as well. Once they started looking at their own community, they could actually see it, what gets wasted, where it happens, and who’s trying to do something about it. That made it feel a lot more real, and less like “just another topic”.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Students came up with some really practical ideas. A few wanted to start a compost system that feeds into a school garden, others suggested a shared food space for uneaten lunches (which got a lot of agreement!). Some groups started connecting the whole system, using scraps for compost, growing food, and even bringing in ideas like chickens or bees. They liked the idea that waste doesn’t just disappear, it can go back into the system.

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? They started noticing things that had always been there but they’d never really thought about, like local growers, community gardens, and how much food gets thrown out. The mapping task was what sparked it, because it gave them a reason to actually look properly and ask questions. Once they started, they kept finding more.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Yes, it definitely started some good conversations. There’s been interest in moving more towards a Garden to Table approach, and setting up a school garden that students can actually use. The idea of adding bees or chickens also came up, especially as a way to connect everything, from growing food, to eating it, to dealing with the waste. It feels like something we could realistically build on.

“The Good Food Map kit was really engaging and worked well across both STEM and Food Tech. Students liked getting out of the classroom mindset and looking at their own community in a different way. It gave them a chance to explore where food comes from, where it ends up, and what’s happening in between. We also linked it to learning about digestion, so students were thinking about the whole process, basically from garden, to table, to mouth… to bottom, which they found both interesting and memorable. I found it flexible enough to use for practical food-based learning as well as more inquiry-based STEM tasks, which made it really valuable.”

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Posted 2 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? critical thinking, waste, 'big picture stuff'

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? they didn't really get it - they got the idea of local but global was beyond them

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? burning (we come from farming background), different uses for the plastic waste products - that was quite creative.

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? They really had no idea where it goes - once the trucks pick up...what happens next - so that was good discussion

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? no

“It was reasonably helpful...it didn't have some obvious choices like a recipe for what you could use the products for...that would have been helpful to have a couple recipes so you knew what the ingredients could be used for. T”

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Posted 3 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Eye opening, creative, collaborative

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? It drew attention to the fact that food waste is even a thing! They were shocked that household waste was a huge component of waste in NZ.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? A community composter which ferments the food under the ground.

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? We didn't end up doing this part of the activity

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? We got a bokashi bin

“This one was a little tricky to do for our kids. We just didn't have the time in the school schedule to complete this one!”

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Posted 4 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Inspiring, provocative, community

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? We mainly looked at local, but touched on other countries and food insecurity there. We did look at the environmental cost of throwing food away into landfill, and the idea of 'embodied energy, great to link the social sciences to hard science

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? The chidlren came up with lots of solutions, jams, smoothies etc

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Coomunity based inititaives such as Fair Food, Avondale Kai, Kiwi Harvest and Fair food

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Not yet, but will. We are putting together a student led environmental group this year

“I worked with my colleague in year 8 - this was a great resource to get our students thinking about food waste. We looked at all the initiatives in our area like Kai Avondale, Kiwi Harvest and Fair Food, with the seem being food insecurity. We lvoed the soup and preserving ideas - we showcased this at our Learning Expo.”

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Posted 5 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Creative, local, connected

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? We didn't really go into the global aspect

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? We made soup. The kids brought in all the vegetables that were going to end up in the bin and made large pots of soup for our Learning expo

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Local food initiaves sich as Fair Food, Avondale Kai, Kiwi Harvest

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Not yet - but planning this term to try and contunue to talk and learn about it

“The Kit was pretty good, I liked all preservative aspect and finding out about local food heroes - the kids learnt a lot about Food waste iniitiateves in the area. They also learnt about Te Hono - linking it to healthy communities. The walk and poem wasn't really feesible in Avondale so we didn't do that part.”

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Posted 5 months ago

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