In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Through collaboration, co-operation and communication with the challenges. The children had to problem solve, question, research, summarise.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Future learning opportunities included mixing children within classes and creativity through Imovie, Flipgrid and displaying information.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I already enjoy using stem in the classroom. This kit had great experiences which added interest to our inquiry learning.

“This is the third review I have submittted for this kit. I have know idea why the system doesn't seem to work! The kit was fabulous, the children throughly enjoyed the activities and the learning behind them. There was a great deal of collaboration, co-operation and communication amongst the children as they negotiated their way through the challenges. My only criticism would be that the teacher's guide was not all that easy to follow or refer back to when you need to search through emails to find the link each time.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Enjoyed having hands on resources rather than just theory. Students were very engaged in this topic. Unfortunately the timing of Lockdown near the end of the topic meant some activities weren't completed e.g we only made a few of the buzz planes but I int

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Great hands on activities. We had limited success with the buzz planes initially but still have half of them left so will be trying again. It has once again been a mucky term and I have been focusing on maths, reading and writing and wellness (and lots of

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I really enjoy teaching STEM and find it engaging to my students. Thank you so much for your support in providing this kit.

“The resources inside the kit are great and I really appreciate being provided with these for my class. I did however find some of the lessons difficult to follow and ended up selecting parts of the pack to use as part of another flight unit.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The children were able to experience problem solving even though for some of them it was totally baffling. Given the ability of my class I would say that the kit was a bit too technical for the majority.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Actual exploration into STEM activities helped understand more about STEM. I will definitely try more activities along this line but maybe not so technical or large... just to start off.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Not being a big teacher of STEM it has opened my eyes to what stem is. I can see the potential for the kids to develop problem solving skills through STEM. Am going to try it again with a different group of kids.

“On open the kit there were lots of inquisitive oohs and aahs. A lot of expectation was help but alas it was a bit technical for the majority of my class. We'll start small and have another go at this at a later date.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Students could use problem solving and strategic thinking while collaborating with a team to work things out. It was fantastic to see them working together and explain their thinking.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students were interested in doing their own research/investigations to further their knowledge in the topic.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? It was a great resource and easy to use. I think I'll also be able to keep it and re-use plus it has given me ideas for new learning too!

“This was a really well thought out resource that was easy to hook the students into! They had a lot of fun discovering more about Jean Batten, working as a team and problem solving!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The group challenges that pushed their thinking and were not things they had done before- morse code, reading maps, figuring out the clues, following instructions all demanded team work, sequencing of information, careful listening, interpersonal discussi

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We also linked our findings to Health by identifying key personal traits that Jean Batten had and looked at this in the context of skills and attitudes that we admire, want for ourselves so we too could be inspiring people in our lives. The exposure to hi

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? The only difficulty I had was with the buzz planes using toothbrushes. I was unsure what they were supposed to be like and searched the internet and the clue for clearer instructions but in the end we have not done these but would do if I knew what to do.

“My apologies that this review is late but I did try and submit it a couple of times and there was a glitch and the information was wiped. After trying twice I didn't get back to it. The unit was fantastic. We loved learning about Jean Batten and used the School Journals and video to lay the foundation for all the wonderful activities you provided. The maps, clues, codes were challenging but such fun. There were some activities that I adapted a little because some of my students are Year 4 and lots of the skills required were being used for the first time. It did however give older students a chance to support and take a leadership role in their groups.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? There were lots of bits that the kids didn’t think of investigating to find the clues. It definitely opened some eyes

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Great! We did our maths and reading topics are Jean batten that week too

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Great to see the connections. I wouldn’t want to put this kit together myself, but it wa great that it was provided for us!

“Amazing kit! Kids loved it!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? I'm discovering that this cohort have difficulty understanding what is being asked of them in written questions, so this was another great way for them to follow instructions and to think about ways to achieve by thinking 'outside the box'. There was some

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More code breaking A plan for more hands-on electronics learning Our planned trip to the local aeroclub was cancelled, but would have been a great experience to learn more about flying, and they have a female flight instructor at the moment. As the st

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? This has sparked some ideas and follow-up activities - and a reminder about using simple electronics

“The kids loved the varied activities within this pack - all challenging and engaging. I had a few moments of 'what do I do?", but eventually worked it out.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? students have learnt how to think stratregically especially when looking at the different types of codes. The tamariki really enjoyed learning about morse code and wanted to learn more.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I would want more hands on, the opportunity for the children to write their own codes.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Students were engaged, I lost them with some of the more complicated activities. We are into STEM and have a go at lots of activities and did spark interest in flying, planes and different aviators.

“the children enjoyed the kit. We found the code cracking very difficult but thoroughly enjoyed the paper planes.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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