How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths - measuring the height of sprouts Health - Life Education - Healthy food, healthy body

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? Children have learnt the names and appearance of new vegetables as they have now seen them growing. They are excited to plant them at home and share with their families.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Children were excited to see the different colours of vegetables as they grow and the variety of different seeds.

“Great resource! Suited our class perfectly this term as we were able to integrate it with Life Education focus on Healthy eating. Children loved watching their little plants grow!”

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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? Science, Maths, Literacy (writing descriptions). Art (drawing the plants and leaf shapes).

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 will come later when the vegetables are grown and tasted.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? we do not have vegetables yet.

“The students loved planting the seeds and waiting for the first shoots to appear. There was great excitement when the plants began to grow and lots of comparing of size, shape of leaves and speed with which they grew (lots of Maths discussion).”

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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 integrated the idea of vegetables/gardening through reading, writing and maths. It became the focus of our reading texts for a few weeks and we wrote recipes, how to grow texts, observational writing all based around the 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? Students were engaged in growing the vegetables, many continued this on to purchase seedlings and plant at home. Parents sent in photographs of how well the plants were doing. Students became hyperfocused on fruit/veg and talked about it at eating times.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Many children were introduced to new vegetables. We were able to read, write, taste and talk about them. It certainly enhanced our knowledge base in this area and provided opportunities for students to share vegetables from their cultures.

“What a fantastic opportunity we had to grow vegetables. The theme was engaging the students were excited by the idea of a club etc. It was easy to differentiate and include all in the class. Thank you for the amazing resources and planning. A tired teacher's brain would struggle to come up with such effective activities.”

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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? Used with how to keep your body healthy.

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? Very good

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Took a while to realise what vegetables were what as 5 year olds don’t have much idea.

“The kit engaged the children and encouraged them to care for plants. The fact they got something worthwhile to take home was great and the feedback from parents was awesome.”

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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? Reading and writing as well as science. We have carried on this term with growing plants and what they need. Language using stories (Jack and the Beanstalk a favourite).

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 children all loved growing plants and are continuing at home. They seem to be keen to eat them.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Not sure as we didn't get to that stage. Some of the more common ones but they might already have known those. As we didn't really see the finished product some of the less well known veges would still be unknown.

“New to this and found it hard to work out exactly what it was. because the kits arrived late and I couldn't follow what was happening easily, we did not have as much time to do as hoped. Used the last 4 weeks of term and sent the seedlings home with the children to plant.”

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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? Maths- we were able to measure the growth of the seedlings. It also gave us a context for our maths tasks. Literacy: Sparked lots of writing - some intructions about how to grow a seed, recounts, descriptive writing when we tried some of the vegetables. T

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? Our students led the learning towards the science of growing, planting and caring for plants.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? There were lots of unusual vegetables this time. We tried some of them as the children had never heard of them.

“We have enjoyed the Little Garden. Our akonga were highly engaged and very excited. There were lots of opportunities to make links across the curriculum.”

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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? Te Reo and Maori culture, science and plant growth.

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 are hoping to make a class salad as our vegetables continue to grow. Children became more aware of what plants are edible and how easy it is to grow your own food.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? My class was pretty good already but they loved learning the Te Reo names for all of the plants.

“It tied in perfectly with our Project Based learning of Papatuanuku.”

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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? This has allowed us to kick-start our own garden bed for 2023. We used statistics and measurements to look at our vegetable growing over the weeks we grew the vegetables.

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! We now have some of our students including more vegetables included in their lunchbox. We have a garden bed ready to go for the start of the year. This allowed us to discuss the nutrition of lunchboxes and some of their snacks. Whanau have continued

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Many students had limited identification of vegetables at the beginning of the unit. They have more knowledge and have a wider range. They have been interested in the herbs from a sensory - smell observation.

“This kit has excited our students - they now tell us about the kits they have growing at home.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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