In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? We explored other websites to learn about the morse code and pigpen code. The games provided us with experiences to engage in some great collaborative discussion where we had to learn about important roles in enable success.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More hands on science based electronic units. The students enjoyed learning about old forms of communication.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? Students loved cracking the code and the STEM opportunities that making the planes provided them with. The testing also gave the students some great hands on problem solving challenges. These kits cater a lot for STEM opportunities with our students.

“Completely loved this kit. Thank you so much school kit for providing us with such a wonderful learning opportunity. The students were very engaged in the learning that this resource provided us with.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Students needed to collaborate and talk how to best work though the challenges. It was great to see students identify the strengths of others and use them as experts to lead tasks. I enjoyed seeing how the students chose to problem solve and work through

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? At the time we completed this kit, we were learning about animal adaptations etc. Some students studied how birds have adapted to have hollow bones to allow them to fly and were keen to find modify the paper planes with straws and skewers to see if it wou

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I gained some confidence but would be keen to explore some more STEM kits with the younger students i will be students I will be teaching next year.

“This was an awesome kit that had the whole class engaged in a variety of activities. I had Year 5 & 6 students, who at times, needed some support. I made sure the groups had mixed-abilities to enable all students to collaborate. It gave some students an opportunity to take on leadership roles.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? it was great to see children collaborate to solve problems in a range of ways. We also took the paper plane task a bit further and developed their planes to see what improvements they could make.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We used google maps to plot Jean Battons path using current airports. We also looked at the development of planes

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? It added some confidence for me as a teacher and provided great ideas on how I can incorporate it in different ways.

“Was a fantastic resource that helped to support our unit around leaving lasting legacies. The kids loved the Mayday activity. We also have some avid problem solvers so the clues they had to decipher were a hit!”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? I had the groups set up as mixed ability so there was always an expert in each group depending on the task. I think the time taken here really helped the success experienced.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? So many paper planes. So. Many. If I had done this earlier in the term I would push this to test distance, loft aerobatics etc as a first step!

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? My class LOVE stem, robotics, coding, ePro etc so this really helped their motivation and engagement

“This was an incredible kit. My class of Y7/8 were completely involved, motivated and passionate.”

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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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“I haven't had a chance to use it sorry will try and use it next year”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? I think this kit has helped develop the students to work in groups to discuss there thinking with each other to help them solve the clues.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The students as well as myself really got interested in STEM and are wanting to do this form of learning more in the classroom.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I really enjoyed this kit, I was a little nervous at first but I more I read and followed what we had to do the more confident I became at delivering this to the students. I think the context was effective in a way that the it learning was fun, the studen

“I feel that this was really successful for my students, they love doing this and wanted to keep doing it over and over again and also ask if there was any more that they could do.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Again the STEM approach to this meant that students had to use different skills throughout the day. The challenges were applicable to the information. The variety of tasks were a key feature of this kit.

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It was a good lead into the NZ Histories Curriculum, although we are now not starting that until next year.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? I am keen on STEM teaching and learning, but I have never used a mutli curriculum escape room before. It has made me think of other ways I can implement similar escape room type activities in STEM learning.

“Hands on and engaging. I am teaching this again next year. I also liked how thorough the information was and the links provided.”

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Posted 3 years ago

In what ways did the kit allow development of strategic thinking for your students? Will keep you posted for next year!

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Will keep you posted for next year.

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How has this kit influenced your confidence in STEM teaching and learning? This kit looks brilliant for STEM teaching and learning.

“Didn't get to use the kit this year due to lockdown, however the kit looks amazing and I will be using it next year (fingers crossed!)”

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Posted 3 years ago

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