What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun. Interactive. Interesting.

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? There was a lot of good learning about local food sources but we found it hard to find information about food waste - local and global.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? School pig :)

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 didn't know a lot about food manufacturing and hadn't thought a lot about where their food comes from.

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

“My students really enjoyed the Good Food Map, especially making the map of our community.”

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Posted 6 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? a different taste!

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? We talked about food and how we can keep costs down with food and what we can do with past best foods.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? pickling! It was really interesting for the children to trial different flavours.

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? All of our children had never pickled vegetables before so it was a different experience. Some children were not to sure but some were complete converts.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? not yet, but we have taken a plunge into more gardening

“This resource kit was exceptionally well-suited for our needs, aligning perfectly with our chosen topic of healthy eating. The diverse range of materials effectively catered to the varied levels within our group. The pickling activity was a particularly exciting and memorable component of the kit. Thank you again!”

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Posted 6 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Interactive, Inclusive, Nature

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? It was very good to be able to tailor to the class needs and levels

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? sharing from our māra kai

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? māra kai and their own produce at home

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Just supported our enviro-school status

“The Year 3 and 4 tamariki loved this learning kit. We loved exploring our environment and community to learn about food areas, recycling, composting, planting at school and gardening in the māra kai. Whānau enjoyed being involved and getting interviewed about their favourite meals or least favourite meals growing up in the different time frames.”

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Posted 6 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Effective engaging well resourced

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? It really made my students think about food waste with both lenses on. Both as a local issue and a global one and they were really able to see the links.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Worm farms for the local community made compulsory! A worm takeover. Give a pig to every family and feed them the waste.

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? Lots of food goes to waste in our own homes but it was our school community and our local community where we had the biggest problem.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Resurrected the food compost bins and working on ways to make that sustainable and the what next.

“We enjoyed this resource. It was great to reflect on our local and wider community food waste and think about how we could reuse some of that waste.”

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Posted 6 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Fun, challenging, worthwhile

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? This was a good area for developing understanding

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Using food that we normally use as scraps for making really yummy food.

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? How many food locations there were!

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? not yet - we already have a garden to table classroom - so a lot of the learning was a double up for us. But good for our leaders to be a part of it.

“You do have to be aware of the amount of food required for some of the activities - so Term 1 is a great term to do this with a lot of summer vegies available. We enjoyed hunting around our town for places to do with food. there was a lot in our town.”

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Posted 6 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging. Interactive. Explorative.

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? They gained better understanding of what local food waste charities are around and how we can better reduce our food waste.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Donating food waste to the school composting pile and using the compost to help feed the community garden. Creating different soups with leftover veggies.

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 hadn't realised how many different local food sources there were, and iniatives that helped use food waste.

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

“We found the kit to be enagaing and informative, allowing us to explore ideas around food in our local area and connecting it to our food and nutrition focus for the first part of the term.”

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Posted 6 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Practical, engaging, cooperative

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? We focused more on the local food production

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? We enjoyed cooking with the food we'd grown at school.

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 realised that the school had everything on site so lots of stickers over the school!

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Not really, it's a big school and the canteen runs separately

“This was good for introducing practical solutions into a classroom”

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Posted 6 months ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging / Interactive / Imaginative

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? The videos were great, getting them to think about what they do at home with leftovers and then linking to what happens locally with food waste.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? They weren't too creative as we didn't have much time to spend on this.

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? They weren't really aware of where rubbish went and enjoyed learning about the different ways people are helped with leftover and for what reasons people in need are given these.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Maybe tying some pickling into food tech or the Enviroschools group with whatever they grow.

“The kit followed on nicely this term from our previous focus in Term 3 - Healthy Eating / Nutrition. The idea of food waste linked nicely and it was great to link specifically to our local community. The children were really engaged with the map and locating food places they had been to. The 60 minute walk was fun to narrow this down and the students were motivated to write the poem. The students really loved finding and identifying local food heroes. I would love to have made soup but the pickling tied in nicer this term.”

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Posted 6 months ago

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