How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Students could write about the process of growing vegetables. They could write a description of their plant.

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? This kit has opened their eyes to the fact that there are many different vegetables we can eat and that they are healthy and delicious.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Some had never heard of some of the vegetables. Some students thought you just go and buy vegetables from the shop.

“The little garden is a great resource - the students were engaged with the whole process. They were checking their little garden everyday to see how their plant was doing. There was much excitement when their seed sprouted. Some students had not heard of some of the vegetables before. Great 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? KC's

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 seemed keen to try vegetables but not yet tested as plants are too small still.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Card game used to help identify vegies.

“Children loved planting little garden plants. Some took theirs home today, others have chosen to plant theirs in the school garden. As the plants are still small, we can't yet tell if they promote healthy eating. They have led to some discussion of trying different food. Children loved taking the LGL pledge and receiving their 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? 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?

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 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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Very High

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?

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? 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?

Very Low

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Very High

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

Neutral

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

Neutral

Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science observations, learning parts of the plant Health: healthy eating, what vegetables are good for what…. Literacy: reading and writing labels for our plants

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? Eating vegetables is now seen as cool!

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? An improvement on rarer vegetables for sure! Some kids had never seen silverbeet before and now have tasted it

“My year one class learnt so much from the unit on growth this term. This was the perfect activity to kick start the concept using a fun hands on approach. We observed our plants growth once a week and the children really enjoyed comparing which plants grew faster or slower. They also noticed changes in stem thickness and colour etc. A really valuable school kit thanks so much!”

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Posted 3 years ago

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