What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, informative, Helpful

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 was a great way to incorporate national vs global trends and issues. We started off by talking about nutrition and healthy foods which then Segwayed into food waste and that as an issue and why things cost and how cost could be reduced. This lead to ways we can reduce the waste from our school lunches also.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? We had heaps from a pop-up supermarket idea called 'Best Before' to ways we can use left over school lunches to help our community.

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? Not find anything new, it really got them thinking about their own consumption and waste and what can be done at a home and school level

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? We have students currently looking at ways we can better dispose of the leftover lunches

“A fantastic resource. I used this with our 9/10 students around nutrition and food waste and it helped me no end the get the key messages I was requiring the students to learn out there.”

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Posted 1 month ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? interactive, long term, food

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 think students understood food waste in varying capacities. When we went on our circle walk, we did not find any evidence of food waste, which impacted their understanding of how good gets wasted, even in our community. We spoke about global and larger scale occurrences of food waste but not having any evidence in our neighbourhood probably has skewed their view and understanding.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Pickling fruits!

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? They enjoyed talking about the local community garden, some had seen it and some hadn't. Some were very fascinated when we looked inside the compost and others were grossed out. We have a pātaka kai, but it has recently moved and is no longer in walking distance to our kura, which left a few disappointed.

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

“Overall my students enjoyed this school kit. They particularly enjoyed the good food map and finding their houses on it! The stickers for this task were okay, very dependent on the area your school is in I imagine, and I wish there was an explanation for each of them as we couldn't figure out what some of them meant. I found myself supplementing information on other food waste solutions, which isn't a bad thing, just something to note. We haven't had a chance to eat our pickled foods yet but the kids were keen to pickle fruits as well as vegetables to see what happened!”

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Posted 1 month ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaged, Discovery, 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? They started making the connection between the local environment and global issues of food waste and what happens to excess food.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? A vacuum of food waste

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? All the different varieties of food that people grow and use.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Being more mindful of our food and food waste.

“The kids relaly engaged when getting to know and looking at the food in their area. They were suprised at what they found in their local neighbourhood.”

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Posted 1 month ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? food, sustainability, community

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 looked at a few different videos from our community and around the world and the kit was able to support this and help children understand what is going on in our world related to food waster

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Lots of students liked the idea of sharing with neighbours, or using the community pantry to elminate food waster in our area

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? Some weren't aware of our community pantry, community vegetable garden and how/where the rubbish goes

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? We have school lunches so there was a bit of discussion around the wastage with this and how we can try and stop that. A senior student also introduced a soft plastics bin to trial around school and we have paper bins in our classes to help with paper waste

“As a class we enjoyed the resources in the good food map kit. It was fun learning and discussing each child's favourite meal, food or things they don't like. We enjoyed talking about things that we can reuse and where rubbish can be collected, recycled etc in our community. We didn't get a chance to do the big walk around our community but did talk a lot about what was in our community. We made a soup with some of the ingredients and the recipe from the box for our Matariki end of term celebration. The children loved being involved in this. We were able to link this kit nicely with our sustainability unit. The only down side was with it being a shorter term we felt like we didn't get to cover everything in the kit and some was quite rushed.”

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Posted 1 month ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, needing work

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? For this we focused in on the UN's sustainable development goals latest findings and then looked at food waste innovations worldwide and in NZ. The data alone was enough for them to be gobsmacked at how much food waster there is.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Public transport that collects food waste as payment and self composts, umbrellas that can grow things on them... to be honest my lot lacked a bit of creativity on this one and if I had more time I would have done several iterations.

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? Most did not know about the community garden, pataka kai and food bank

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? We are collecting for our local foodbank this christmas.

“This kit had some good ideas in it and some that just didn't work for us. There were some good concepts to work from and so I modified them accordingly to get maximum engagement and output for my intermediate age students. We were able to connect with our local community garden and our local foodbank. We didn't do the walk - finding a time to go and having another adult to go with me was tricky so we made our own map and walked to the community garden instead. The real winner was our pickles. I reached out to someone I know that works for Kaibosh and were were able to use rescued food for this too which added another layer of understanding to the concept of food waste. We also spent time exploring what innovations are happening in NZ around food waste which was very encouraging.”

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Posted 1 month ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? relevant, engaging, varied

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 could have gone deeper into this but choose to do other activities instead.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Not sure

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? Our walk around the community was very valuable for students and allowed them to see food waste programmes in action and community gardens.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? class veggie garden

“Our class enjoyed the kit and the activities. We completed it with our younger buddy class. The students really enjoyed interviewing staff and students about what they had for lunch. We created a video fro their interviews. We also completed a collaborative story book of what people had had for lunch in the style of Eric Carle "The Very Hungry School".”

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Posted 1 month ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Has good resources

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? Na

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Compost

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? No

“Has good resources”

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Posted 1 month ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? thought provoking wonder

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?

Not effective

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Generated a lot of ways to think and engage with the topic.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? A wrist band that had a zapper on it if you tried to buy food you didn't eat!

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? Our only somewhat used compost by the school garden.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? It should have, but not currently.

“Our students enjoyed getting favourite dinner stories from others. It was interesting to see what commonalities we had. We also noted a common least liked food! Food waste solutions was an engaging topic for our students - there was also a very good talk about what is in our class rubbish bin, what goes to the compost, but more importantly why we have food in our lunchboxes that we never eat anyway! Creative, and thoughtful ideas/designs came forward.”

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Posted 1 month ago

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