How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The students got a lot of opportunities out of their projects and learning.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Most of them eat healthy anyway as for others they are adapting to the changes we have.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The pictures helped, and they were all engaged when planting and identifying vegetables. Very enjoyable

“Very satisfied with what the students have achieved. They had enjoyed the planting and now have a clearer understanding what each vegetable is.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Unfortunately in our situation I did not have many sessions with the children to take the learning into other areas of the curriculum. (collaborative classrooms).

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Most children have a positive attitude toward healthy nutrition and healthy eating. They could talk about healthy diets etc but still went back to the potato chips and prepackaged food that is in their lunch boxes.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Many children learnt about new types of vegetables that they did not previously know about.

“I think the kit and the learning involved was awesome, but it really didn't work for us so well. In the collaborative class that I only teach in one day a week, it was hard to follow up and help the kids keep the plants healthy and alive. I had the other teachers support, but they were running their own programs, so it didn't work as well as it should and we were critically time poor.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Writing (sample), art and maths activities

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students became more excited and had some great discussions around healthy eating. Due to time constraints, we did not spend enough time on this part

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Teachers created tasks on Seesaw to support with vegetable identification which was a great way to learn the names. Writing the names and some information about each vegetable further reinforced the learning

“A fun and informative kit. Was also a great way to develop the home/school partnership.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? we using measurement to track growth, used our plants as a writing prompt

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We did some mindful tasting of some vegetables which was great. The Tamariki were keen to eat their ones once they were big enough!

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? the game based aspects really helped impact students ability to identify vegetables.

“Growing things is such a powerful connector for kids! they grew super fast and were really proud to take them home. They also thought the badges were awesome. we didn't do all the activities as well as we could have, that was due to my organisation. You gave a really cool different angle to simply growing. Our kids were engaged in this kit. Ngā mihi!”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We are learning about what plants in our Environment we can eat and use to make other things, so this worked out perfectly.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Their attitude about healthy eating is great and this kit boosted that too.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It was great to have them exposed to new types of veges that they may not have seen or heard of before.

“The kids thoroughly enjoyed this School Kit! It kept them interested for weeks, watching the plants grow, transplanting them and watching them grow even more. Solving the clues was great and having bonus badges etc helped with the enthusiasm.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? science, math, art, writing, reading

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? lots of students going home and telling families about healthy eating / sugar in foods - requesting healthy lunches etc

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? kids loved the bingo game and learning the names of lots of veggies they hadnt seen before

“kids love it! great experience for those that don't have the opportunity to garden at home / know where food comes from and how it is grown. Lots of learning around healthy eating”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

Neutral

Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We discussed and observed the growth and measured the change over two weeks. How many shoots, who had the most, lest etc

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It has had a positive impact on the student's mindset around healthy eating and trying new vegetables.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? A lot - we had many discussions about the different kinds of vegetables and how many people eat them all the time, sometimes or they have never tried them before. Taking time to name the ones we already knew and new ones that they didn't know.

“Healthy eating and our little gardens! Over the past few weeks, we have been learning about healthy eating to fuel our bodies for health to grow strong and be good swimmers. As part of our learning, we have incorporated planting our own healthy vegetables from the little garden seedling pots from the School Kit program. We have learnt the names of various vegetables with the playing cards and how to care for the seedlings as they grow. Last week we tried some healthy spinach from our school garden, and mostly everyone liked it. We discussed how trying new things is good for our taste buds and you can eat vegetables in many ways such as raw, steamed, cooked or with other vegetables in salads. This week we went outside and transplanted some of our seedlings into the gardens at school. We look forward to watching them grow and tasting them later in Term 4. Great learning Kauri A.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

Neutral

Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We took turns in planting our own vegetable pod, then the next day we did procedural writing about what what we did, step by step. We linked it to our mathematics strand of measurement. We got the rulers out to measure different vegetables. The children w

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We talked about our school lunches and what was in them, both visual or as a hidden vegetable cooked into a nutritious muffin. Lots of Aha moments as we talked about what was on their plates at home and that they looked different in the garden.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Large impact because the children learnt about some new vegetable names that were not bought by their family. When we checked out what they would look like when they matured, some had seen them on the supermarket shelves but never knew what they were call

“OMGsh, the surprise kit paid off. Our school had a science kit due that was linked to plants, petals and pollination. I thought I'd risk it as the top secret kit looked like it had some carrots on the stickers. Thank you from the children and myself for the enriched learning that they were exposed to. We used aspects of the kit across the curriculum, including procedural writing, maths, science, and health to name a few.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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