How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Plenty of opportunities for reading and writing. Good use of scientific understanding for older kids which they were able to impart to our junior buddies.

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? The students now have a better understanding of where most of their food should be coming from in order to maintain a healthy body.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The students now have a much wider knowledge of the range of vegetables out there! They are really looking forward to including them in our school garden to table programme when ready.

“We used this kit as part of our tuakana/ teina programme with our junior buddy class. It was a perfect way for the older children to take ownership on some of the delivery and we have managed to reinvigorate our edible garden at school in the process.”

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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 linked with Art - designing and (eventually) making ceramic labels for our food forest. Linked with Enviro schools in many ways, sustainable communities, Moari Perspectives, empowered students and beings in the fact that we need to grow food to help us

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? Allowing the students to wander through the garden, trying new things instead of packets from their lunch box

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The 24 different vegetables we amazing and led us to discover different varieties and traditional vegetables.

“This is the second time that I have had a little garden kit. This year the children really enjoyed the planting and worked with our gardener to plant, then grow in the glass house and have just transferred to the school food forest. The class loved watching them grow, which led to planting plants for our classroom. We are looking forward to eating some of our plants later in the term and sharing them with our community.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Having new entrants, this has crossed over into Maths, Literacy and Health.

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? When I put the emphasis on the little envelopes and the importance of filling them out with Mum and Dad and whanau members it has obviously sparked discussions at home and it has been interesting to learn what the children have tried as a result.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students have definitely learnt to identify more vegetables as a result of the kit.

“Our children enjoyed putting water onto the pallets to make up the little seedling pots and then planting their seeds. They have been watching them grow each day. They loved posting their envelopes and were proud to receive their Little Garden League badges.”

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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? Social justice - caring for our world.

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 got to see a better selection of brain food options coming into the school.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Enjoyed making the connection with our free fruit in school.

“I did use this resource last year and was hoping it had changed, so to learn more science etc. so class were not as excited or engaged this time around.”

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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 taught other classes about our vegetables, made signs, gave speechs, made vegetables and planed gardens.

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? Kids are much more willihng to try new things and see and feel the benifts of a healthy diet. They are also proud of what they are growing and are looking forward to sharing Kai with others.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Hugely, playing the games, talking to each other and exploring books that sparked our intrest due to our high engagement with the kit meant we could identify tons of new vegetables.

“Tuatara class loved the little garden kit!! Weare a class of year 2 students at Plateau School in Upper Hutt and we were super proud of our gardening skills, so much so that we are now planting our seedlings into the school gardens and learning how to cook food to share. Thanks so much for providing such an amazing learning oppotunity.”

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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? DT, Health, Te Reo

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? I heard stories of students looking for the vegetables in the supermarket

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Awesome some of the students had never heard of some of the vegetables

“An outstanding kit, loved by the children! The enjoyed taking their learnings home. Stories of children taking an interest in the garden were awesome to hear.”

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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? English - writing reading Science and concept learning based on caring for living things

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? Grew some awareness of where food comes from. They knew fresh is better than processed.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children had fun while learning

“Lovely hands on tasks that linked to our learning for the year. They were able to independently complete the tasks because of our prior learning.”

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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? I incorporated this into our Inquiry into Science/ Technology that had a focus on food waste and composting.

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 have more 'buy-in' eating healthy foods when they have been part of the process in growing it.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students were able to identify the vegetables and talk about what they were growing with their parents.

“Was a fun kit and was a perfect match with the inquiry into compost that we were doing.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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