In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Cooperative thinking and group work - using coding and other activities to think outside the square.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We then went on to look at famous faces throughtout New Zealand history.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Gave me a lot more confidence to try new STEM activities.

“Fantastic resourse and very engaging!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? As I didn't personally teach this unit with my class I feel I am unable to comment on this section

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I have since referenced this kit with my children when we have done other STEM activities. For example we build kites for Matariki and I referred to what they had learn about flight from this kit and the plane activity

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? My class absolutely love STEM tasks and I liked having a different approach and kit to use with them to get them working together and thinking strategically

“I personally didn't end up teaching this unit in my classroom but a reliever did and she loved the it. Said it was very helpful for her as everything was provided and the kids loved it - especially making paper planes and bringing competition into it. Her feedback was that she would recommend this kit to other teachers.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? They were thoroughly engaged.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? They understood Morse code and would practice with their friends. The boys especially tried to perfect their aeroplane techniques.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? It was a very effective way to engage our tamariki

“Ngā mihi ki a koutou mō tō Kaupapa a Jean Batten. This Kit was a highlight for our tamariki. Thank you very much Whare Akoranga 14 X”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Team games challenged their planning and cooperation.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Further code breaking activities and cooperative games.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I loved trying the buzz planes and feel confident about doing this again with my class.

“The Jean Batten kit had my class buzzing! From code breaking to team playing and co-constructing they were hooked!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? .

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Do more like it

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Was useful to get different ideas and how to apply those ideas in a practical context

“Was great, 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? Teamwork strategies! Initially, the teams weren't listening to each other's ideas and there was a great deal of rushed 'guessing' to solve activities. The children then had to refocus to work together to solve the task accurately and became much more orga

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Learning new codes, creating our codes, learning more about Jean Batten and other aviators, exploring electronics and of course the ever popular paper plane styles!

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Absolutely! Love how each activity had so many different skills that all lead to deeper understanding.

“This is a truly brilliant kit! I was so excited to start because the whole kit presentation is so inviting! Each stage is engaging and fun with lots of different learning. My class loved learning about Jean Batten through the diverse range of activities and the kit gave extra scope to continue learning aspects afterwards (like more code work and electronics).”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? We built the plane whilst flying. Some of the younger children struggled when it became difficult but persevered.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? History of aviation

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Yes it has but I would definitely go through whole resource with another to nut out how everything should go.

“Great resource. The buzz planes were great fun and so was working out the different means of communication within the groups. Popping the balloons was insane!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? They had to solve problems in ways they hadn't thought of before.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Solving codes and using morse code on micro bits.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Shown that there are many different ways to inlcude STEM in the activities that we do.

“My class loved doing this kit. Not only did they learned lots about Jean Batten but they developed thier problem solving skills too. They should great perseverance and loved the medals at the end, which they wear with pride on thier blazers.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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