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Jean Batten Treasure Hunt 21 Reviews

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Aleisha M
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? They had to work together to make decisions around the best way to proceed and think about costs and risks. The discussions were great
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More work on understanding flight and how this has developed to pilotless planes as well as orientation /navigation skills
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Because the resources were engaging and easy to use it gave me confidence that I was on the right track and made me do more exploring for my own learning
“Teaching an all-girls class we were inspired by Jean and the determination and resilience she showed. We loved the STEM activities and the resources were beautiful to use and engaging.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Pam
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The different resources help connect them to the story, think of other ways to build a plane, how planes work and work through an inquiry process with the different clues.
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Redesigning their paper planes, looking into other famous pilots, planes, how to calculate weight on bigger place,
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Loved that the planning was done, resources provided and clear instructions to follow. Allowed me to enjoy the process more rather than having to work out all the logistics of putting it together.
“Was an outstanding resource with a variety of activities to engage the students.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Juliet C
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? For my class (Top Y8 Maths), this kit didn't really develop their strategic thinking skills, but I can absolutely see how it would be beneficial for younger classes. The variety of clue types was great, and having to work together with another group to ge
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More, higher level code breaking
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Seeing how basic you can go, such as paper planes, through to the buzz planes where you are connecting the components and trialing different modifications to make them better was great.
“This is a beautifully presented kit based on a very cool idea. It was a bit easy for my Year 8 class, but they still enjoyed learning about the different types of codes and doing the practical activities like the buzz planes.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Niheta
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? All the coding, robotics, escape room stuff. Students had to work together a lot as well.
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I think you have produced a really interactive thought provoking kit. We could of gone into depth of so many more things. eg woman's rights, impacts of world war 2, engineering, economics of maintaining a plane, e.t.c
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? This kit tested me in some areas, but I enjoyed learning new things. Our whole syndicate did it so we could all feed off each other. We got makey makey, scratch and all sorts going on.
“This kind of activity is sort of new to me, but a lady in my syndicate was all over it. This helped immensely and it turned out to be a very good school kit. I like the coding 'escape room' type activities. Also the history and hegemony of how society saw men and woman activities. A good question would be 'how did Jean Batten's latter years end?' She seemed to have gone into 'hiding' and was not the celebrity New Zealand would of liked.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Billy
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The resources in the kit allowed the students to experiment and think.
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? History and Inventions and How things work.
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I loved it and I would do this again in the blink of an eye. It even had me thinking on some of the activities. It made me step up and in some out of my comfort zone.
“The resources in the pack very good. The students really enjoyed the activities that came with the pack. I would highly recommend this pack to other teaches.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Samantha
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The children were exposed to problem solving and STEM paper plane challenges in order to being creative and innovative and future focussed.
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The children also wrote their own 'I am' and recorded this for their portfolios - we used this for their families to showcase our Universal theme of Belonging.
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Yes, very much so. It was perfect timing and set our collaborative class up well for the rest of the year.
“The Jean Batten Kit worked well as a platform for our children to understand their sense of belonging. We used the kits for 2 days - the children working problem solving and code cracking, map reading skills and understanding the place important to Jean.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Hohepa
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Good discussion starter for further thinking.
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Good
“Found it had a great structure.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Hannah
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? I think the tasks required lots of steps and perseverance so all children were able to apply their thinking and be involved. Because there were processes involved (like paper plane templates/code cracking etc) the children had to be strategic, deep thinke
How effective was the context of this kit for teaching and learning STEM?
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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Loved the problem solving and "escape room"aspect to the kit. Learners loved the hands-on "things"given in the kit.
How high was the student engagement and enjoyment in this kit?
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How successful was this kit in developing students' strategic thinking?
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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? The 'creating' and 'doing' element was high and the children's products i.e. planes/robotic planes didn't always work first time. So it was great to have the chance to talk through how to persevere and use the strengths of others in your team. I would def
“Loved the problem solving and "escape room" aspect to the kit. Learners loved the hands-on "things" given in the kit.”
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Posted 3 years ago
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