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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Children wrote lists a vegetables, they described veges they loved. They wrote instructions on how to grow your own seeds and plants.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Science, English.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? My children loved trying new foods and vegtables. I had a parent who shared how pleased she was when he child asked her to buy capsicums from the supermarket becuase he loved eating them now.

“Great resource. Easy to follow and you could pick and choose which parts best suit your class and the time you had to put into it. Simple to use. Children LOVED the coded messages. Thanks for this, my kids had heaps of fun! Would love to do it again.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? This kit incorporated writing because the children took very much interest and it carried into their writing. We learned about health and wellness. It led us into science and how plants need water, sunlight, and soil.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I have a class who loves flowers. This kit encouraged them to want to do more planting. It looks like we will be planting flowers in the future!

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We had great discussion about what foods are good for you and not so good. This led into more discussion about how we can stay healthy overall.

“This kit was so much fun! The kids really enjoyed planting their vegetable. They took a lot of ownership over planting their own vegetables and it was so lovely to see. Having the resources all provided in a garden kit made it easy, efficient, and engaging. Loved it!”

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Posted 4 years ago

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Good science and literacy links.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Could potentailly keep some in class for a longer time and teach the kids about being more responsible for them over a long time. Could integrate more maths, science, and literacy.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? This probably could have been more effective if we had had time to talk more about the beneifits of eating vegetables. This is not the fault of the kit, more of a time thing for us.

“The resources and ideas for this were really great. The kids loved joining the club and planting.”

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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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