How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? None for my learners

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? None

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? A few of my students have been able to identify some of the vegetables growing in the garden like carrots and silverbeet.

“My small class of highly autistic students were very excited when I introduced the little gardens kit to them. They loved the hands on nature and watching the seeds sprout. We are lucky enough to have our own patch in the school garden and our learners have renewed interest in our garden program!”

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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? We did some measurement activities and science around what plants need

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 are more willing to try a new food that they have grown

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students learned to recognise new vegetables. Lots of discussion between children about what they liked and didn’t like.

“Great fun. The children loved learning about how to grow their own vegetables. They really enjoyed all the different interactive resources and being a part of the club.”

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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? This kit linked in with our Garden to Table programme. For some children, there was learning about different vegetables. It also linked into our maths topic, the children measured the growth and graphed the data.

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? With help from the book, the children enjoyed learning the benefits of specific vegetables and shared this information with their families. The children were very proud to show their parents/family the progress of our vegetable gardens

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? We have a parent/author who had written a book about vegetables. We read this book many times and identified which vegetables we were growing

“My class loved the little garden products. They were engaged with the process and had much joy as they watched their plants grow.”

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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? Art - we made cartoon animals. Science - the living world we looked at how the sun and water are important to help our vegetables grow.

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 will all happy to talk to each other about what they had for brainfood each day. There was a competition for the biggest apple.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The grow protect taste poster to place stickers on was a great support

“The children really enjoyed growing their little gardens. The post box was a highlight so was the vege patch match game. We all had lots of laughs with the vegetable jokes!”

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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 links to literacy, mathematics and art.

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? Great.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students naming and understanding of vegetables increased. Some were liked, others not so much, but they all tried.

“Great hands on learning for the kids. High interest and engagement. Nice to see kids exploring different vegetables.”

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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 like how it was a fun way to look at statistics with the graphs that show how many days for the seedling to sprout. Children enjoyed decoding the secret code. Loved how it linked technology and science together easily.

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? Children are starting to see the benefits of eating vegies, they loved the idea of growing your own kai. We have not reached a point where they can eat their little garden, can't wait til we are

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It was a great way to introduce children to new vegetables that they were not familiar with. Unfortunately, I couldn't provide an opportunity for them to taste the different vegetables, if I were to do this kit again, I would definitely incorporate this i

“Such a wonderful kit to use, very appropriate for my Y1 classroom. Really happy we had more than enough plants because they have attempted a few times to grow their plants. Material that accompanied the kit was really fun and my tamariki loved it. Looking forward to posting and sharing more of our learning on the app”

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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? Writing - instructions and recount, art - planting, the little garden and what we think our plant will look like, numeracy - estimation of days till sprouting then to fully grown.

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 know they should be eating healthy foods, some talk about planting gardens with their parents.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children liked to look athte chart for their vegetable - there were a few that they hadn't heard of so we searched for images on the internet.

“My class of year 2 and 3's loved planting these - and we are still watching them grow. It was great that they could all feel success at being able to plant - and they are even prouder now that the plants are growing! They are still not keen on eating vegetables though hahaha!”

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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? I did not link this well with other curricula.

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? As I did not extend the learning into this area I don't know how much it impacted healthy eating but certainly growing their own veges I am sure would inspire them to try eating them!

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students enjoyed the vege match game and it got them dicussing the names of veges and debating who was correct.

“The students enjoyed gplanting and growing their seeds. As I had a separate Inquiry going on at the same time I believe the students would have gotten more out of it if it had been fully extended by me - we did not go into the depth of learning we could have. I suggest ensuring you have plenty of time given to fully get everything out of this resource. In future I will plan ahead how I am going to use the resource to it's full potential.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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