How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Our inquiry was about New Zealand Histories. The students were interested to know what plants and Veggies were grown years ago.

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The students were all keen to eat the little garden and now the plants are outside they keep watching to see how well they are growning.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? This was a little slower to learn as we have lost a few of the name tags and had to wait until they had grown lots before we knew what they where.

“The Little Garden is such an engaging kit for the students. My class enjoyed the secret codes and club, but most of all they took so much care tending to the plants. I did however as a teacher miss the tray that came with the kit last time as it made watering the plants much easier.”

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Posted 2 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? Only really language with new entrant children. Some measurement for maths but this was around some additional bean plants which we planted.

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? We stressed an importance in including some fruit or lunchboxes.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Many of the vegetables were unknown to the students as as yet we haven't had any grow through to development.

“We loved our little garden kit. It formed a large component of our sharing and celebration of our learning with our parents.”

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Posted 2 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? Great - opportunities to talk about volume, use the mahi to write about, science concepts etc.

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 novelty encouraged tamariki to think about eating different things - and peer influence/pressure helped with this. I know from observing my akonga eating their school lunches (provided by the school) that many have very limited diets - this project wa

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? In time as the vegetables grow this will be useful. We will use things/they will try different tastes. Some of the quicker growing things were surprising - they found the rocket spicey!

“We made good use of the planting aspects of the kits. Tamariki really enjoyed the seed sowing and watching the progress of the seedlings and the subsequent transplant into the garden, Lots of opportunities to extend language - which was my goal. My tamariki are the newsest to school and the clubhouse aspect was a bit lost on them.”

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Posted 2 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? Lots of research, inquiry through different lens, art, science, writing and maths graphs 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? Lots of excitement around the vegetables growing and talking about giving new food items a try.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Great improvement with all students.

“Great exposure to healthy eating and a kit full of fun hands on experiences for all students. Engaging and motivating! Would recommend to others :)”

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Posted 2 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? memory game in literacy, writing about their 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? The children always want to try and harvest what they plant.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? A bit, some children had also been collecting at home so were excited and looking for the ones they didn't have.

“Kids loved the chance to take ownership of something”

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Posted 2 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 have been learning about water cycles as a unit, so this kit was really helpful to tie into our social sciences unit about how water can be used in different ways.

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 think it definitely has improved my students' attitudes towards healthy eating and nutrition - we would talk about how we could use the vegetables in this kit (eg. how to prepare and cook a certain vegetable, and what kind of lunches/dinners the veges w

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? There were some vegetables that the students were not familiar with, so this kit was very helpful in terms of bridging that gap. We had some awesome class discussions discovering the new vegetables that were in the kit.

“Our classroom of year 3s/4s loved this kit! The students were super engaged. Some students had never grown their own plants/vegetables before, so this was a really awesome experience for all students. The students were super excited to come into class in the mornings, and see how much progress/growth their plants made overnight. Overall this Little Garden Kit was really awesome, and the students loved all the little extras (the badges and the flags/posters for the classroom display).”

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Posted 2 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? Literacy, science based and social sciences based.

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 think that the children who were resistant at the start in my class were still pretty resistant throughout but the tamariki who were more open minded got to further improve their thinking about healthy eating.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The games and the stickers were most effective.

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Posted 2 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? Mathematics- sorting and clarifying Literacy- writing about the growth of our plant art- sketching the plant growth overtime

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? lots.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? All my children had very good prior knowledge of vegetables. They probably learnt more herbs.

“I have a class of Year 0 students and they absolutely loved planting the gardens and learning how to care for them. They loved being part of the club and wearing the badges.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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