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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Using as part of our measurement unit - measuring the growth and graphing it.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Fostering the care for our school gardens and the wetlands beside our school. Using food in the kitchen to share

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Encouraging students to try things they hadn't tried, or to re-try things they have tasted but didn't like very much the first time.

“The students really enjoyed knowing they were the 'first in New Zealand' to know about the little gardens. Sharing the growing process has been exciting for them and they have gone on to research the plants that we hadn't tried before.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Environmental writing, letter writing, report writing, sketching, graphing

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Plans for designing and planning gardens at home to enter in the school garden competition.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Variety of foods available How easy it is to grow food

“Our class loved being part of this latest School Kit promotion. It was as expected, well resourced and full of hands on learning for all”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? This kit provided lots of cross-curricular learning with the students liking to health, science, literacy, maths, art, oral language etc.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Caring for our little gardens at home or in our school vegetable garden. Passion for watching things grow and how to care for these. Once the produce is ready to be eaten I would see this being added to their skills of how to prepare food / cook / un

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? There has been lots of discussion around vegetables, fruits and what we eat. The kit has introduced a wider range of vegetables that the students are open to trying.

“We really enjoyed taking part with the school kit in our class. The children were engaged and hooked in from the very beginning right through to the completion.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We created graphs about our favourite vegetables, info-graphics about how to care for seedlings and did some studies on plant growth and life cycles of plants as well as the process of how food makes its journey to our dinner plates.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This was easy to make in integrated unit out of and in Term 4 we will carry on with this learning in the form of personalised inquiry learning.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We were exposed to a wide range of vegetables and learned about them which made it all the more fun when it came to taste testing. The 'garden to plate' concept (even though our seedlings are still growing!) made it more enjoyable and they tried a lot mor

“My class of Year 1 and 2 learners were so engaged in their learning. They loved becoming kaitiaki of the seedlings and teaching others about how to care for them.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? In all areas as my kids a bit older they can read from their devices and were able to put across lots of curricula.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Helping out in our school garden. encouraging others to eat well.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? as they have grown the plant they seem willing at this stage to try new things even if they haven't enjoyed in the past. Getting the concept that what goes in powers a mighty engine so may as well put great fuel in.

“Such a great kit, my kids loved the hands on aspect.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We used this as a motivation for Writing, Read about taking care of plants, and used the plants as a context for rich tasks in Maths.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Opportunity for children to grow their own plants, educate others about healthy eating.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The discussions around vegetables and the fact that they were growing their own, encouraged some children to bring more vegetables and fruit in their school lunches. Some children came to school and talked about the vegetables they had at dinner time and

“Thank you for providing Team 13 at College Street Normal School with a Little Garden kit. The children were so excited to become a LGL Member and learnt lots about growing plants and the different types of herbs and vegetables. Our LGL members loved growing their plants and took their job of caring for their plant very seriously! It was a great day when their plants showed started sprouting!! The card game was great fun and provoked a lot of discussion and was an excellent way for children to be prompted to share their prior knowledge and experiences. We really enjoyed growing our little gardens and now we are looking forward to potting them and hopefully eating them!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We had a unit going called ";Lets Dig it!"; All about plants and growing this tied in well with this. Gave the opportunity for writing experiences also.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Future opportunities to help with our school gardens, looking after the community. Sustainability.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Exploring some new vegetables that students have not heard of. Showing children about how they grow by cracking codes, this encouraged them to try new vegetables because they were a part of the ";Little garden league"; they knew it was an important job as

“This school kit was fantastic. It integrated well into our topic unit that we were also doing. The process of planting the plants and watching them grow the children were mind blown! Some have never seen or watched anything grow before. They loved cracking the codes and proudly wearing their badges. Overall we had great success and have now planted our little gardens into our school garden. the children will know be able to watch their plants grow long term”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We have made it work across the curriculum where possible, technology - building houses to keep our plants safe, maths - graphing favourites, literacy, science - it has been a wonderful experience.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Next term we will be cooking, harvesting and continue to watch our garden grow in the school garden.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? All the children are talking about vegetables and trying new foods at home.

“This was an amazing kit. As my first experience I was not sure what to expect but the buy in from my class was amazing and we have made it work across the curriculum where possible, technology - building houses to keep our plants safe, maths - graphing favourites, literacy, science - it has been a wonderful experience.”

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