How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Using technology and food and recipes. Writing and reading.

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? Looked at different ways to use the vegies.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Some they hadn't heard off so was great for learning.

“My year 4 kids loved this and took pride and care growing their seeds. We have now planted them in our school garden and look forward to getting them onto our plates. We did some extra research on some of the vegies. Great kid.”

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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? Many opportunities to link with our inquiry around Te Taiao

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 did have a discussion around trying new foods and how we would give it a go and a few learners pointed out new vegetables they had in their lunch boxes and whether they liked them or not.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? We all learnt the names of some new vegetables (myself included learning borage). The card game was a really fun way for children to learn the names of new vegetables.

“The resources and especially the little garden plants were a hit with my learners.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We talked about health, haoura, 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? Growing the vegetables themselves made the students share how they enjoyed them.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students were able to identify vegetables they used and grew at home.

“Children enjoyed making connections to their prior knowledge and experiences”

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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? Statistics - monitoring and graphing

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 effective in raising student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Positive impact.

“The children were engaged and totally into learning about vegetables, growing vegetables and yes eventually harvesting. Having a tasting was a great way of promoting healthy eating and trying different vegetables they had not tried before. Breaking the code and secret membership made it exciting.”

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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? Science - what do plants need. Healthy eating Writing Art - observation of the different leaves

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 going home and talking about vegetables they hadn't heard of before. The students were able to discuss what food provided good nutrition and what foods should only be consumed occasionally. We decided that there were no bad foods we jus

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It was great to see that many children recognised some plants and were excited to see that some were in their lunch boxes or on the menu at home. As we harvest plants I think many students will be keen to try new vegetables

“My students were fully engaged with the little garden plants. We have created a new garden. This will provide a place to plant our plants, a place where our students can see them grow. As the students get to harvest the plants they will become more interested in healthy eating.”

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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? There were many cross-curricular learning opportunities from science - what does our plants need to grow to literacy, digital tech and health and PE.

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 are aware that for our bodies to function well they need fruits and vegetables as well as water rather than sugary snacks. Discussions around chips being potatoes but aren't actually a healthy food vs sometimes food.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Many of our students weren't aware of how many vegetables were available. Also there was a common theme of we get them from the supermarket but no knowledge of where vegetables come from before they get to the supermarket! We know have tasted many new veg

“My students loved this kit. Their favourite part was cracking the code to work out the secret message!”

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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? We talked about vegetables and growing conditions in different counties in the world and conditions they need. We compared vegetables in different countries and what made them tolerate certain conditions.

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? Student interest in healthy eating and nutrition was obvious with chat and lunchbox conversations happening daily.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? This was such a great activity and kids were able to identify and get interested in many vegetables.

“Kids simply loved it, THANK YOU”

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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? Writing - creating journals about planting and what we observed, Maths - Measuring plant growth. Technology - making snail houses to keep them off our plants and of course 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? Our plants are not ready to harves but we have done alot of talking around what each vegetable can be used for .... the pop corn one was what everyone wanted in the end. This has also given teachers the opportunity to identify things that students would e

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Huge getting to students to identify the seeds they had by finding it on the poster was great. I think that using characters gave the learning more impact.

“The students loved learning about the lifecycles of plants, planting their seeds and then learning about the different stages of growth. Learning that was generated from the kit was amazing once the seeds had sprouted we planted them in the school gardens. Students have been able to share the process with other students in the school and have now taken more responsibility for out school gardens, It was a real hit and the badges just topped off the whole learning.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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