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

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Understanding about the local shops that is trying to reduce waste.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Worm faming.

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

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Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? That shops are using environmentally friendly packing.

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

“The students have been learning about food fermentation and the importance of reducing waste, i.e, canning the extra vegetables, and fermenting them. We have included this in our Garden to Table programme.”

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Posted 9 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, fun and educational

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? They were beginning to understand

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Composting or using the food to make petrol

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

Not at all

Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Fruit trees - discussions around fruit and seeds

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Its been very helpful with garden to table.

“This was such a fun and engaging kit for both the students and me!”

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Posted 10 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Interesting, interactive, informative

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Students were able to see the waste locally and then understand it at a national and international scale. We looked at the population of NZ compared to other countries which also make them think of waste differently.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Having a community pig farm where all food waste went into feeding them!

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

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Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? They were surprised how many places served food in our local community.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Students were definitely more aware of recycling their food scraps at school.

“We used this Kit to research our local food providers and contact them to see what they did with food waste. This was a real eye opener for the students. We used the resources to look at ways to preserve food and ways to use food that was past it's peak. This was great to connect with statistics.”

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Posted 10 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, Informative, Interesting

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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Very effective

How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Perspective!

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? How to use the waste (Vege scraps - stocks) etc

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

Not at all

Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

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

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Thinking about a school composting system

“This is a great tool for encouraging students to think about food in their local area. It enouraged lots of thoughful korero among student”

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Posted 10 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? curiosity, hands on, local

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? comparisons

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? IT integration, machines and road/gutter vacuum cleaners.

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

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Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Our resource centre, old washing machines that could turn into worm farms.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? looking at recycling objects rather than buying e.g washing machine for worm farm.

“We enjoyed relating to what our school already does to reduce waste and felt proud, also good to relate to our local curriculum to see how we can support our community.”

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Posted 10 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? educational, engaging, inspiring

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? It opened their eyes to the amount of waste locally and globally

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? creating pickles for the food bank

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

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Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

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

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? It has made the children more aware about food waste

“It was great to get to know the food around our local area. Children got to see what was underneath their noses in the local environment. They were shocked.”

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Posted 10 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? interesting, meaningful and fun

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? I opened up their eyes and provided good discussion points.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Donate left overs to local school or homeless people

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

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Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Nothing

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Vegetable garden up-grade

“The students had mixed reactions to the pickled veggies. Some really liked the flavour while others screwed their noses up. We made pumpkin soup which was delicious and everyone had positive comments about this experience and tastings.”

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Posted 10 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? creative,hands on and inclusive

How effective was the resource in fostering critical thinking about food waste issues?

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How effective was the resource in increasing students’ awareness of local sources of food?

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? We used it to draw attention to the reasons why there was so much food waste in our school lunches and we put into action some of our ideas for improving this. This term we will monitor our changes and compare the waste to last term.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Finding ways to make our school lunches more inclusive to our cultural tastes. We did this by creating dressings,sauces and pickles that improved the taste. We also redirected extra or unused food to the afterschool programme. We used a toasted sandwich maker to make toasted sandwiches with leftover unused lunches

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

Not at all

Prompted some discussion

Exceptionally well

What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? the walks in our community were really valuable. We also made use of historical photographs to show changes in food production.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? See above

“We enjoyed the poetry aspect of the kit, and we were able to make connections to our different tastes and family food preferences. We loved creating pickles, which were reflective of our different cultural groups and used them to enhance our whole school lunches. We are going to continue some of the tasks this ter,m as we found we ran out of time.”

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Posted 10 months ago

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