In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The kit had multiple angles to work with and this provided challenge for students to not just look at problems in a linear way. There were also clues that they needed to investigate further.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We actually went down the path of investigating other historical explorers as we had already looked at Amazonian explorers from a novel we were reading. It just happened to be a good tie-in. We're now looking at exploring culture and how practices have ch

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? It was great to see how I could use a typical inquiry 'topic' and use it in a STEAM/STEM way. This has helped me see how I can integrate STEAM more into my teaching.

“This kit really helped my children further develop their inquiry skills and understand the impact that exploration has had on people in modern day. It was great to introduce STEAM to the children and to link prior learning.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? The code breaking tasks provided the students with the opportunities to think strategically to solve the problem.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The students wanted to develop a wide understanding of communication through history.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Yes, I have been provided with more exciting approaches to teaching STEM. The idea of solving a long problem/puzzle really engaged the students.

“The kit was well received by the students in the class. They enjoyed the hands on approaches to the task and loved learning more about communication and flight in the past.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? This kit allowed children to work together to try and decipher the code. This kit really helped the children to try and problem solve and come up with solutions.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The children were really engaged throughout using this kit. After using this kit children were really excited and wanted to learn more about Jean Batten and other famous New Zealanders from the past.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I absolutely loved running this kit with the children. This kit has provided me with some great ideas for further STEM opportunities in the classroom.

“This was a really amazing resource. It tied in nicely with what we were learning and focusing on in our classroom. The children really loved making the paper planes. This kit was something the boys especially loved participating in.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Able to apply learning to real world situations.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Was able to branch off into almost every other topic.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Lots of fun to use! Kids loved it.

“Loved it!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Working out how to create the engines involved lots of strategic thinking in teams.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We followed up with further learning about Jean Batten.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Wow, the class had a ball with this kit and I loved the variety of activities.

“What a fantastic kit! We spent an entire day immersed in Jean Battens world. The students had a fantastic time following the clues I set out for them and enjoyed plotting Jean Batten's journey on the world map. They were amazed at all the 'old' names for different countries and places as well. The balloons were a fantastic hit and we were lucky enough to have a hall where we could 'weather' the storm!! making the planes was a fun task and we held challenges to see which one could fly the furtherest. We all had a fabulous time!!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? It allowed for plenty of strategy thinking development due to the variety of skills required to complete the tasks. It also encouraged pair and group work in this area.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It has opened the door to future research, code work, engineering and design work, and Maths problem solving work.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Greatly, all of the STEM areas were covered and were able to be taught in a fun and engaging manner.

“The Jean Batten kit was excellent. It had many interactive/fun activities that my students enthusiastically engaged in. The activities not only helped my students to learn about Ms Batten but also developed their knowledge and skills in other areas.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Range of problems to solve, had to work as a team. Prior knowledge was needed and good to be able to research those.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Links with how history can be incorporated into STEM and make it an engaging topic for students.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Great range of activities.

“There was a great deal of information and our boys especially loved all the tasks. It was good to have a role model for the girls. It was a bit hard to grasp how to complete the escape room component.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? There were a lot of activities that allowed for tamariki to engage in collaborative thinking, and to undertake many iterations to improve outcomes. Making mayday planes and code cracking are the primary examples of this.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The evolution of flight; geography & maths - distances, speeds, measurements, movement; tech/art - drawing & construction of flying machines; history - Jean Batten and other early pilots and flights; science - flight, forces, metereology & weather...

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I'm pretty neutral on this. Constructing mayday planes helped reinforce previous learning (2019) on flight and the forces involved in flying.

“The Jean Batten kit had a lot of interesting, engaging and educational activities and aspects - tamariki and kaiako were all engaged! Some of the activities (especially code cracking) felt a bit daunting, but perseverance and resilience paid off as the kids kept on trying 'til they were successful.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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