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 linking this experience to looking ast symmetry in nature and the insects that help our gardens grow.

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They have enjoyed that it is their work that is producing the vegetables - it has linked well to our KEGs programme - soon hopefully we will be harvesting and cooking/baking with our produce.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? This is new for many of my students - they are more aware when the vegetable is grown and looks like the vegetable the family buys at the supermarket.

“We are still working with the kit in term 4 as we didn't get started until the last few weeks of term 3. We are now at the planting stage and the children are also working this in with our KEGs programme in our school gardens on a Tuesday.”

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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? Students were able to research their vegetables and write reports on it.

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students loved the idea of eating what they grew.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students were able to recognize vegetables that they had previously never heard of.

“Great idea however many of the kits didnt grow unfortunately. However, the students still got a lot of learning out of the process.”

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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? It helped with writing as we could write about our plants and the characters.

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Quite good but great to encourage this with tamariki to take home to whānau.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Good

“Great kit with lots of great activities and loved the badges.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We were able to link this science and growth cycles of seeds. Students also tasted some different vegetables and were able to write about the benefits of vegetables as well as describing what they looked and tasted like.

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? Students were making connections to their school lunches and it gave some of the more reluctant students courage to try some of the different vegetables that come in the lunches. The students have also become more aware of why it is important to eat healt

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students were able to identify the common vegetables but struggled to retain the names of some of the trickier vegetables and herbs

“This kit was an amazing resource for engagin my students. My students saw the displa I set up with the fantastic resources you sent through and they were instantly curious and wanting to know what it was all about. They enjoyed signing up to the club and then planting their seeds. Every day the children would rush into school to see how they had grown and were excited to share the progress with whaanau. Another highlight was when the badges arrived and we had a little ceremony to hand them out. There were some very excited children.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? we incorporated maths, writing and art most days based on the observation of the different seedlings

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? I used opinion writing to help my students try new veges, they could then write about whether or not they liked the vege and why they did or didn't like it, some decided they like cooked veges more than raw

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? My students didn't know very many veges at all! they have gained a lot of knowledge and have tasted a few new veges that they hadn't tried before

“My year 1, 2 and 3 class loved this resource, we have our little gardens growing on the window sills in our classroom waiting for the right time to plant them outside in our class garden boxes. As part of our literacy rotation my students did an observational drawing of a different seedling each day and wrote what they could see, the used rulers to measure the plants growth and were able to discuss how much a plant had grown over night! Our class looks like a little greenhouse!”

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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 were able to link our learning to literacy. Planting the seeds was an opportunity for students to follow a procedure, and for other students to show leadership in helping their classmates.

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The students were very keen to grow a plant, and we talked about places to grow them at home. A few students come from families that already grow a lot of vegetables, but the majority do not have vege gardens or fruit trees at their homes. Having the seed

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? There was some excellent conversation around the different vegetables. We have a fruit and vege eating time each morning, and we were able to talk about the food in their lunch boxes and the plants that were growing on the windowsill.

“The kit was great fun and very engaging with the badges and club to belong to. Each child was able to have their own plant, which was excellent.”

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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? Writing - We did letter writing.

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They are aware of the importance of eating a variety of healthy foods including fruit and vegetables. In general they are prepared to try new vegetables as well knowing that they might need to try some foods up to 20 times to adjust to new taste or textur

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It has definitely improved. I'm also surprised at how many students actually have already tried different fruit and vegetables.

“Room 12 have loved being ambassadors, leading the way and encouraging others to grow and look after plants and try new foods especially vegetables and fruits. They responded very positively to the badges, secret messages and role of caretakers of our little gardens. We had a writing focus so actually wrote a letter to apply as well as writing a letter of thanks to our local New World for sponsoring the LGL kit.”

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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 measured our sprouts, and played the matching vege games loads.

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 have been identifying the veges that they liked to eat and ones they wanted to try.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Lots. They liked trying to figure out what the sprouts could be.

“My tamariki enjoyed this kit so much. The learning that went on was great. Some kids had never planted seeds before, so they had that experience, for others - they liked watching how different the sprouts were. Such a cool kit!”

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Posted 2 years ago

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