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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? I did art work and writing

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? growing a school garden.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? I didn't take the healthy eating/nutrition way. I used it more as of a tool of learning the difference between fruit vegetables and about plants.

“It would be good to have a more structured unit to teach from as I found it very broad.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Mathematics

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Planting and heathy eating. Growing our own food

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Coming to school with carrots and other vegetables in their lunch boxes

“Great unit to do in class. The students loved the code breakers and the badges.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Some cross curricular opportunities, but we were unable to take it too far as we had another unit running alongside this unit.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Many future opportunities to go deeper into this unit, to look at our school garden more closely and link this unit into other enviro topics.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The kit sparked their interest in vegetables again. Many of the children had a wide experience with vegetables, but hadn't tried them for a while.

“The class enjoyed signing up for the club and feeling like part of a team. They negotiated for the vegetable they would like to grow.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Added this into our garden theme as part of our annual market day

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We did some learning around the life cycle of a plant and germination ( so the kids would know what was going on under the soil before their plants popped up)

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Was able to refer to this kit during out brain break when students are supposed to make healthy eating choices

“Great for junior school kids - high interest and activities pitched well to junior levels”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Because of the age of the children in my class we were a wee bit limited but it did create some great oral language and inquiry thinking about plants The measurement side was a wee bit over their heads but would be awesome in an older class. Literacy was

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Healthy eating Bee Awareness Different types of seeds and seed dispersal

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Basically show children how their food grows/ where it comes from. Our plants are not big enough to try yet but hopefully they will survive long enough for this to happen.

“This kit was fabulous we are still continuing with the activities as our growing unit began at the end of Term 3, my class of 5 year olds really believe the story of the LGL and wear their badges proudly. We cant wait to be able to plant them in our Community garden.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? The coding was a great example of a cross curricular activity. We have been learning Maori words for the parts of plants. We have been writing about plants and doing oral language activities around our plant topic.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We will be continuing to develop our school garden next year - so this topic will remain part of the teaching and learning programme for the new Year 4's.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students have become more aware of the variety of plants that they can eat and the parts of the plants they eat. When students cultivate their own crops (and later on add them to their cooking/baking) they are more likely to try new foods. This kit has al

“As always the Little Garden plant pots are a great success with students. This term our topic is focused on our school garden, so the school kit has been particularly relevant. Students enjoyed completing and earning their badge as part of the the LGL. They are still proudly wearing the badges. Each day, the first thing they did upon entering the class was to check the plants - a very motivating topic.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We used it as a health topic and a science topic with germination and growth cycle of a plant but beyond that it really didn’t lend itself to any other topic.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We talked about how the children could plant their own vegetable garden at home and they took their plant home with them before the holidays. We have a vegetable garden at school so now the children have a better understanding of what is happening as the

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It opened up the discussion of what vegetables children had tried and ones they hadn’t. We talked about how important it was to try new things and then decide whether we liked it or not.

“I teach New Entrants (5 year olds) and they loved planting their seeds. It was a great learning topic for us as well. We learnt about what it took to make the plants grow and then we learnt about the stages a plant goes through when it is growing. The children loved watering the plants and then watching and looking for when the first signs of the plants coming through the soil. The only thing that created a challenge was the little signs that said what the name of the plant was became very soggy and ripped due to watering etc. I wonder if these could be made more durable.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? This kit links in nicely with science, health and maths. We measured the growth of the plant and recorded the height.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Gardening, healthy eating, life cycle of a plant, linking into bees and insects

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Learning about vegetables. Giving all vegetables a try. How to look after a plant.

“The children loved growing their little garden.”

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