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 - Living World: Life processes · Recognise that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive. · Recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat. Math - Stats Gather, sorting and counting and displaying ca

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 eating vegetables strengthen a their immune system and help fight illnesses. Students are aware of different types of vegetable . Students are aware that growing your own vegetables is fun, how to grow a vegetable, what they need

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students were engaged with the identifying the different vegetables. They inquired about certain types that they have never seen or heard about, Students are more aware of the different types of vegetables after using their kit.

“This is our Class Review: This is a really fun way to promote fruit and vegetable to children. They were engaged and excited to see what was in the little containers, The little containers made it easy for little hands to plant. Students were engaged with the kit, Have noticed some lunch boxes contain vegetables since we started the kit.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Lots, we wrote letters to the founders, used maths in measuring, estimating and baking with vegetables. We also made vegetable art using mixed media.

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 coming in to class every day to talk with me about what new vege they've tried or something that they've cooked at home. Quite a few have revisited old previously unloved types and we've had a few taste testing sessions in class to vary

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Actually I was impressed with how much they already knew. I think because they're country kids they're actually really good vege eaters.

“Students were extremely excited, engaged and motivated initially with everything that came through. This slowly dissipated and then wore out as there were less activities to do. We have though just planted out our seedlings so hopefully the enthusiasm will be reawakened once we see growth in our vege pod and or have veges to eat.”

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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 was able to be used in reading, math, 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? Vegetable soup is very much a stable in our diets now and their parents can not believe they are eating it.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Now the learners can name a wide range of vegetables.

“Fabulous kit. The kids loved it and are so excited to get their veggie gardens going.”

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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? Social kills - cooperation, working as a team. Science - planet earth. plant life cycle Te Reo measurement - measuring how tall the plants are growing, comparing heights using mathematical language, taller shortes 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? Very positive

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? they now know all the names and can talk about the veges that grow above and under the ground

“This kit was amazing. The children have enjoyed the planting of the seeds and are watching daily to see if anything has started growing. The activities and game were great for the age of the kids in my class (6 and 7 years olds).”

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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? maths measurement. and writing. Science as well.

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? what veges there are, Not so worried about something new. It was a different world for some of the kids.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? A bit of an impact as they were learning what the vegetables are.

“kids loved it. Lots of talking and learning about plants and vegetables.”

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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? Science, art, writing maths (arrays)

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 were more open to trying new veges after discussing with their peers which veges everyone enjoyed the most (funnily enough their was a wide variety of favourites).

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Many students learnt about a new vegetable they didn't know existed.

“My class really enjoyed the whole LGL experience from the membership applications, code cracking, seed planting and learning about photosynthesis and how a seed growths!”

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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? Science - Growing plants/germination Maths - Comparing heights of different seedlings Health - Learning about why fruit and veges are good for us Writing - Writing a vegetable joke book

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 have been trying different foods and can explain what food is healthy and what is not

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The 'spot it' type game really helped!

“The children loved being a part of a secret club!”

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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 linked it into some of the work we were doing in science 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? I probably didn't link this as well as I could have, but the students were definitely excited to be growing their own vegetables to eat. We are lucky that for the majority of our students healthy eating is a part of their everyday life.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Although we didn't look at specifics of names of different vegetables, we identified root veges and veges that grow above the ground. We also looked a little at herbs and edible flowers (and touched on how growing flowers promotes bees to pollinate plants

“We loved it! It's created so much curiosity and in particular my class went down the path of -why do different seeds take different amounts of time to germinate. We also looked at plants that grow above the ground and below the ground, as well as the difference between popcorn and sweet corn.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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