How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science, technology, maths.

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 raised a discussion about vegies and why we need to eat them

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? very little since most plants were kale or snow peas

“I had a high number of the same plant in my kit. The children were a little dissapointed by this.”

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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? Learning about germination and needs of plants.

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

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They were interested to hear of other children's enjoyment of veggies and have made a pledge to try more of these.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? They were not familiar with many of the vegetables so we brought some of these in.

“Thank you for your generous gifts of seedlings and related resources. Our children enjoyed doing an inquiry on germination and were engrossed by the whole process. Their seedlings were sent home after ten days in order for these to be planted and our school moved on to a new school wide focus. This study could have lent itself to more exploration since the children were so enthusiastic.”

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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? Great science and health cross overs

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

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? This kit more gave students an awareness of where their food comes from and how easy it is to provide healthy food for yourself.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Heaps! Some of our students had no idea what any veges looked like before buying in the supermarket.

“I completed this kit with 5 year olds and it was great learning for them. They had no idea of the process to grow and harvest veges so has been fantastic learning of the process and what goes into our food.”

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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 used the kit as a writing experience. We then wrote instructions on how to plant a seed using the kit. This was then used as a purpose to write for a student who wasn't there that day.

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? Not sure.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Lots of discussion was had around "what one have you got?" and "I like ____!"

“Lots of little gardens that everyone could do one each. Had spares incase someone's got lost or damaged.”

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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? Great art and maths problem solving.

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 were very keen to discuss every morning how our plants were going and what veges they liked or didn't like.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Amazing how much they didn't know before starting the kit.

“Excellent tool to engage children in gardening and producing their own food. Thank you.”

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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? Linked the our Inquiry

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 understand that we are going to use the vegetables next year to make, preserve or cook it and eat what we make. Students have already tasted raw vegetables that they hadn't tried before. We are trying to implement the concept 'from garden to

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Getting the kit enabled students to research more about vegetable plants and herbs.

“Getting the Little Garden kit at the start of the term was a great way to hook my class into learning about growing plants from seeds. We have planted them in our school gardens. It also lead to learning about when to plant, what to plant together, crop rotation and companion planting and from garden to plate. My students had fun planting the little gardens and watching them grow. Thanks for providing such a great resource.”

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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 combined this unit with some work on measurement and volume, did an art activity capturing our gardens, and did observational drawings for science.

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

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The circular aspect of this unit, starting with seed, caring for plant, growing vegetable, eating vegetable, and being able to then save the seeds to grow again helped the kids to understand the joy of growing our own food.. so affordable when it grows in

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The alliteration was fabulous in the NE room as we are always looking for ways to broaden their vocabulary and understanding of sounds... lots of 'the first sounds are the same' so thank you for that! Otherwise they're all leaving with new knowledge about

“I used this kit with New Entrants, and the leftovers with ESOL kids. The little ones loved the hands on planting and kaitiaki side of things, and the ESOL kids got so much rich language through this 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? Tamariki decided to create a whole inquiry around their little gardens and how to care for the environment. We used out little gardens for writing and maths (great links to science too)

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? Excitement to grow and harvest their own food. We are a garden to table school so this was great for the kids to do

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Younger tamariki enjoyed the matching game to help build their ability to identify different vegetabels. they also enjoyed noticing differences between each others little garden

“Great kit. Prompted an awesome inquiry. Thanks!”

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Posted 3 years ago

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