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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Could easily be linked through all learning areas.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Topic around sun and moon after interest in what plants need to survive.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Being brave to try new vegetables, wanting to try the veges they had grown.

“An amazing resource with great activities. Easy to extend to all learning areas. My class told their parents about what they had learnt and observed each day.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Talked about Growing (science). Measurement in maths. Healthy Eating - Health and Physical.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Life cycles and growing more plants.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Knowing where things they eat come from.

“The kit was really engaging. The children enjoyed planting, measuring and growing their own vegetables.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths - arrays Inquiry - enviro / living landscape Observational and discussions

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Moving onto our inquiry for term 4, living landscape. Our enviro garden, greater participation.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Recognising where plants come from and the different types of vegetables some of which they were not all aware of.

“Fantastic resource children loved the badges and the challenges. Will definitely take it up in the future.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Pattern veges, and fruit for maths, counting healthy food, and unhealthy food, writing about what is healthy in our lunch boxes, and what we had for dinner the night before. Writing lists of healthy and unhealthy food. Fine motor development with cutting

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are doing a lot of craft and art as a follow up, and we are maintaining a wall display about our learning so we can look at it, and review it.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They are becoming very aware, and keep discussing in their own time. My students also are very interested in what each other has in their lunchboxes, and when they open them at morning tea and lunch, they go through discussing what is healthy, and what is

“They were amazing. Easy to understand instructions, students very excited, easy for each student to help plant them, and they grew quickly. I would recommend to other teachers.”

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How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Science - looking at living and non living and what living things need to survive. We also looked at different types of plants/vegetables and parts of a plant. Literacy - reading books about plants, writing about what we notice and the steps for growing

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This term we are going to link healthy eating to what our bodies need and the purpose of nutrition and regular exercise.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The children learnt about a huge variety of vegetables - lots that they didn't know already. They had the opportunity to try some different vegetables. We learnt about what vegetables give your body and how that helps you learn, grow, sleep etc

“This was a really engaging and hands on kit for the children to use when learning about different vegetables and the part they play in nutrition.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? In writing, we wrote about the journey of the seed, instructions on how to plant. Reading the instructions, reading further on the vegetables. For science, looking at life cycles, growing plants and it linked in with maths unit of measure.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Re-planting this in our school garden. Starting up a gardening group and now we are looking at linking this to visual arts and creating some signs and gardening sculptures to spruce up and continue to build up our garden.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? I found that it was quite abstract for them and its a process as we are still growing our vegetables. We will continue to work on this and once our vegetables are harvested, we will be making some products or food recipe with them to complete the cycle an

“My class absolutely loved the Little League Club. They loved that they had been invited to join an ''elite'' group when I presented them with the badges and set the scene for the club. They really enjoyed watching their plants grow and took great responsibility in watering them.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths - measurement Literacy - reading and writing opportunities presented Health - nutrition

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Science - life cycle of a plant, plant parts etc.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Some students were unaware of where vegetables came from, and others had never heard of some of the types of vegetables. It was good to see them learn how to look after plants.

“I think this kit was a great way to combine curriculum areas - literacy, maths, and health were a big part of the kit. Supporting resources were well made and instructions were reasonably clear.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Writing the club letter.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are continuing growing more seedlings with a view to sell them to fundraise for a World Vision gift for a poor farmer overseas.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Widened their knowledge of the range of vegetables available.

“Great idea. Perhaps needed to start planting the seedlings earlier than allowed. Also, as a non-gardener, some more info on best way to grow the seedlings and transplant them would be helpful.”

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