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Jean Batten Treasure Hunt 21 Reviews

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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.
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? 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.
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? 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
Angie
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Through the variety of different tasks that required student's to read, discuss, think and problem solve together.
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? There has been more of an interest in aviation and learning about famous New Zealnaders.
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? My confidence and enjoyment in STEM has grown exponentially.
“Thoroughly enjoyed this Jean Batten School kit. Tied it into my reading plan and topic for the week. Lots of fun and challenging tasks for my class. Would definitely recommend. Here are some photos of my student's in action.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Chris
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? We were definitely excited by the opportunity to do this, but as not competed can’t accurately comment.
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? We were definitely excited by the opportunity to do this, but as not competed can’t accurately comment.
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? We were definitely excited by the opportunity to do this, but as not competed can’t accurately comment.
“Unfortunately due to Aucklands level 4 and currently level 3 restrictions, We only started the first activity with our students. They were in groups finding clues and decoding messages. This was a motivating, engaging and rewarding experience for them.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Matt
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Students were able to have robust critical discussions around the challenges of long distance flights. Students started to synthesise their new learning and began researching about other long distance feats (across a range of transports - land, sea an
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? Aforementioned topics in other text boxes (science, social sciences, making connections - Amelia Earhart, the space race to the Moon).
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? Students learnt about the principles of flight (science) and how the design of a plane (engineering) affecting how well it would fly.
“The Jean Baten kit was a great, hands-on experience for Room 8! They enjoyed constructing the toothbrush planes and learning about our Kiwi version of Amelia Earhart.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Craig
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Kids went on their own line of inquiry, tooke ownership of learning
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 regarding nz history, particularly aligning with local history curriculum
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? highly engaging, wanting more
“Fantastic kit, kids super engaged”
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Posted 3 years ago
Deb
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Haven't completed yet - I'm sure it will show a range of opportunities for students to do so
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? Exciting introduction to our kiwi heroes topic.
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? Such an easy way to incorporate STEM into my teaching
“Unfortunately due to lockdown we are unable to get stuck into this activity. It looks fantastic! I'm going to use it next year as an exciting way to introduce my students to our 'kiwi heroes' topic.”
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Posted 3 years ago
Jacqui
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Every activity developed their strategic thinking. They had to work as a team to problem solve, practice trial and error and make decisions. I have a Year 3/4 class but worked with some older children that were able to lead the younger year 3s.
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? Many of the children enjoyed the different codes that were used to decipher the first clue. They wanted more of these challenges so I will incorporate these into the classroom. They enjoyed thinking about how maps have changes and how countries had develo
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? I've always enjoyed STEM teaching but it is lovely to get a kit all set up for us with the necessary resources and planning done for us, thank you.
“My class loved the Jean Batten kit. I had planned to do it just as lockdown struck so instead I gave the children an activity on researching Jean Batten and presenting in a creative way. This was a great lead in when we came back to school as many children had prior knowledge and they got to share their findings with others. My class loved cracking the codes, popping the balloons and making their buzz planes”
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Posted 3 years ago
Paula
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In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? This kit allow the kids to think outside of their own lives. The learnt how to support others in our community. We had a fantastic time learning about the student volunteer army and then became a volunteer army ourselves for the day.
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? That they loved helping others and want to do more of it and and more often. Since this we have organise more opportunities to connect with our community.
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 instructions, ideas and teacher planning are really valuable and support the learning with the kids. The activities and flow of the lessons have been created very well.
“This was a great kit and the kids really enjoyed all of the activities and tasks that were involved. It really fitted in well with what we were learning about at the time. Great to have all the bits and pieces in the pack to makes it so much more interesting for the kids are they are really engaged with the learning.”
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Posted 3 years ago
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