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 kit lead to great lessons and connections with other things we were doing in science (what do plants need to grow), maths (particularly measurement) and other curriculum areas such as Te Ao Maori and 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? It made some students realise how easy it is to grow things from seeds and that vegetables are accessible to all. The kids became more open to try things that they thought they didn't like or hadn't tried before.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It helped them recognise that not all vegetables look the same or grow at the same rate. They also connected the seedlings to plants in the school vege garden and were surprised they could recognise some things from very small.

“The kids loved that this was hands on and there was enough for everyone to have a go. Everyday they came in and checked the plants first thing. They were surprised that the different plants looked so different from such a young age. It was wonderful to have something practical to invigorate the 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? Connected with writing - procedural of how to plant / take care of plants, daily growth diary Arts - visual arts, acting out how veges might talk/think Maths - counting number of each vege, grouping, measuring growth etc

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 been introduced to a number of new vegetables They gained an interest in gardening and taking care of their plants and in turn, more care of themselves and what they eat - ownership of growing own veges was huge! Opened their eyes to the 'f

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? A lot of my students don't have the healthiest family lifestyles so they gained a lot of knowledge about new veges, how to care for veges etc

“We are a fruit in schools school so this was a great opportunity to extend our learning around healthy eating and lifestyles. The kit was full of really useful and practical resources and the online site provided a lot of additional information and support. The students were really engaged from day one and loved both the hands on experience of growing their own gardens and being part of a secret squad and receiving secret codes!”

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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 and the living world...not so much health and eating healthily as this wasn't our focus and we only touched on it. As a school our health was in Term 1 after returning back to school from two covid years.

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? NA as it was mainly a focus on what plants need to survive. BUT our kids will now know they can grow and plant their own vegetables etc

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The kids loved the card naming game but did get confused between the cartoon version and the actual plant.

“It tied in nicely with our science learning and the water cycle and we linked it to how important water is for living things. Our kids loved the 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? Maori - Te Reo words for fruit and 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? The children recognised that different vegetables had different nutritional values.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students were able to recognise most of the vegetables, some were new.

“The children loved planting the seeds and taking responsibility for them, making sure they survived.”

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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? Teaching science 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? I am sure that when the plants have something to eat the children will be interested and this will help them to learn to eat vegetables.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? We are hoping that the vegetables will grow and have something for the children to eat. We talked about the seedlings and this has helped the children identify.

“Thankyou very much for the little gardens we have just planted them up in the school garden and every child was able to plant up a living healthy little 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? We were able to use it for our story writing time as well as 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? They are excited to eat the veges from the finished plants! They are talking about planting more vegetables at home this summer.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? My class is a year 1 class so they weren't very familiar with vegetable names. The game was too hard for them for this reason, but it has started them thinking about it.

“Loved the packaging and the extras in the box. The children were very excited to grow the plants and it was made easy with the kit. They were very engaged. Loved the bright fun banner that was included and the worksheet.”

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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 - researching, maths - measuring plant progress, science

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 had a variety of healthy eating menus developed, kids making corn fritters and tasty salads.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Kids could identify all vegetables and were interested in other cultures veges - taro, bok choy

“Thank you for organising a fun kit. The tamariki enjoyed gardening, being super spies and finding out about growing their own kai.”

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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? Making comparisons. Writing about favourite/disliked vegetables I wish I had seen another teacher's growing space earlier - they had a large plastic tub filled with soil and the seedling peat pots were buried in it- the plants that grew were far healthier

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? Some students were now keen to ask to try vegetabes that were not used at home.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Very good, as some children did not know common vegetable names. Even more important was that many children had no idea how vegetables they ate were growing in a garden. Several thought sweet corn, cabbage and cauliflower grew underground. We had a great

“Growing Vegetables from Seed'”

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Posted 3 years ago

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