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 this kit in our literacy, maths and science learning areas. In Literacy the students read a range of fiction and non-fiction texts. We also used this as part of our procedural writing unit where students had to create recipes. For scie

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 don't feel that there has been much improvement in this particular area of learning. This was discussed but was not the main focus for our learning this time around.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Most students were knowledgable about many different vegetables, new for them this time was the difference between the leafy vegetables such as borage.

“The Little Garden kit is fabulous. The students really enjoy participating in this learning and it offers such a wide scope for learning opportunities.”

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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? I used the Little garden kit as part of our Market Day inquiry where students had to create a business that would sell products at our school market 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? Growing food gave students a new and improved attitude towards the food that they eat.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? This kit introduced students to a variety of new vegetables that they had never seen before. The Vege ID card game is still a big hit in our learning space. the students are now able to educate their peers on the name of the different vegetables.

“This is an amazing resource to share with a class of junior/mid students. If this resource is going to be made available again in the future it would be helpful to have it sent out closer to the beginning of the term so that we have more time to grow and perhaps extend on our learning. Our seedlings were still very small by the time the term had ended and leaving them over the term break is not an option.”

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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 a wonderful food forest at our kura so being able to expand our learning to bigger plants, trees etc has been awesome.

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? More children are having raw vegetables in their lunch boxes, there has been alot of around the table discussions at home too.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Most children had a good knowledge, but for the tricky ones like bok chou etc, the programme has been great.

“We love the Little gardens, but this year we have had many seeds not grow at all which has been a bit disappointing but we have planted out the ones that have surived.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? All the kids saw the importance of healthy lifestyle, and realised the connection between eating healthily and exercising, which was great to see discussed in class and even better that the connections came from the kids.

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? Again, through class discussion, kids spoke about talking with their parents or caregivers at home about what we were learning and all kids were able to share changes their families planned on making because of this (small or big!). The kids were rightly

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? While some kids could name most if not all of the vegetables and herbs, a large number of kids could identify very few. At the end of the unit when we reviewed all the vegetables we knew there was a big improvement for these kids.

“Another amazing unit based on gardening. I have done this kit with my kids previously and it was really worthwhile again, I even had kids talk about how their siblings spoke about doing the unit at home!”

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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? Not much as our school is doing an Inquiry that doesn’t relate to it . The only link I could was with Writing and using Spring.

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? Couldn’t get into this through lack of time and other priorities in the curriculum for Year 1 students.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Not much

“Year 1 students enjoyed the process but limited on depth because of other curriculum priorities.”

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Posted 2 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? Lots of Wonder Questions and building on into our Inquiry for the rest of the term.

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's attitude was outstanding - some children starting bring healthy lunchboxes to school

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Children knew alot of the veggies names already - we brought Te Reo words in for them.

“Right for this Year level of children, where able to take and grown in the school garden”

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Posted 2 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? Reading, writing, Inquiry 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? We had already learnt about healthing eating last term so this has just been an extension of this.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Most of them already knew most of the vegetables but it was helpful with identifying the growth cycle of vegetables.

“The children have been very excited to watch the vegetables growing and to take care of their vegetables. We are going to learn about bees as a follow on from this and their importance in our survival.”

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Posted 2 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? maths-shortest tallest, Writing of their personal experience of planting seeds and observing it 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? Can link their vege growing to how healthy their lunches are. Looking at the freshness of their food.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? the kids took ownership of adding the vegetable stickers onto the labels that went into the ground. From here they could see the picture and rember their plant.

“Garden kit”

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Posted 2 years ago

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