How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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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

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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?

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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?

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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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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

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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?

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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

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? Graphs and measurements for math and a lot of literacy.

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? Yes

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? There were a lot to learn so they didn’t pick up on them all.

“Our class had a great time with this lit. The highlights we’re seeing when there seed showed first signs of growth, the badges and making the graphs with the stickers. We did the code crackles as a class as the concept was a bit tricky for some. We set up a little garden corner in the class so there was a place to have all the learning. We played the songs from the iTunes list and they liked the lemon tree song. A fabulous hands on school kit.”

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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? Art, music, literacy (looked at the first and last sound of the word, what words rhyme)

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? They were more interested in veges so hopefully they took that information home to show qith their whanau.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? They children learnt a lot about a specific plant and then presented their findings back to the class

“The children loved being about to physically plant and then replant the plants. It was great learning in what plants need to grow and then looking at the differences between the pots and ground. The children LOVED the badges! We looking at the veges and what we could make to with them. Made up recipes and had a go at making stuff potatoes.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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