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 linked in with our place based curriculum and our focus for the term.

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? They were so excited to know the next step is to plant them in a bigger garden and watch them grow!

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? They can now tell you any name of a vege by looking at photos and pictures. They cannot recognise them by looking at the plant though.

“The tamariki loved each and every part of it, they were so engaged!”

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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? Reading, writing, maths (measurement)

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? Very curious learners.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Supported students to identify vegetagbles in their school lunches (Lunch for School Programme)

“Kids loved the many opportunities these created for their learning.”

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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 talk about science, and did writing on the topic. It would be able to be pulled into maths as well but unfortunately we didn't have time.

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 very keen on watching their plants grow and have been speaking to their parents about having gardens. I am very excited to hear from parents if growing their own foods expands what the child is will to try at home.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students are able to identify their own plants that they planted. Unless they were already exposed to the vegetable, I don't think they'd be able to identify others.

“Kids loved it and were very interested seeing their plant grow!”

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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? Linked to our inquiry, health, P.E, reading about different vegetables, sharing stories, writing, maths 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? Students can share different recipes they want to try.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Massive increase in amount they knew and could recognise.

“Kids loved the mystery element around this as well as planting and taking care of their own seed. Students now know lots more about vegetables than they did before.”

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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 cross-curricular learning between English, Learning languages (Te reo Maori), Science and Health

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? First of all healthy eating was improved by the students learning a greater range of available vegetables, we hold a daily healthy munch and I started to see vegetables such as carrot or celery being brought along too. This has been a fantastic kit for te

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Some of the children had not heard of some of the vegetables so we did some further research on our cromebooks and we are going to have a tasting party next term.

“Miro Room Children have really enjoyed planting and caring for their plants. They have been keen to help with watering and the vege patch match is fun! The children are all interested in learning the Te Reo names of the veges and have gone on to create a menu in Te reo. Our badges arrived today and all have pledged their allegiance to the vege!”

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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 decoding, writing about the planting, health about what our bodies need, Reading the stories and info.

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? Growing vegetables and eating them with their peers alway makes them more open to trying new things even if it's just a bite. Discussions about 5 plus a day etc and healthy bodies and what we need that often gets missed out in a busy curriculum.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? They learnt what the seeds, seedlings and full grown plant for each vege look like. Many they didn't know or havent grown before.

“The tamariki really enjoyed the code cracking and planting and looking after the seedlings. It was pitched to the perfect level for my year 2 and 3 class.”

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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? We used the amount of vegetables for statistics, we based our reading programme around vegetables too with texts about gardens.

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 were introduced to vegetables they had not heard of before.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children were introduced to vegetables they had not heard of before. They enjoyed the surprise of seeing what the vegetables looked like.

“Thank you for providing such a wonderful kit. The children have LOVED making up the seedling kits and watching these grow. The extra resources have been wonderful too. As I have done this with a New Entrant class, the code cracking/envelopes were not able to be done independently. Thanks again.”

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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 wrote stories and make artworks.

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? This unit has encouraged healthy eating.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children knew what most of the vegetables were but didn't know the herbs and loved that they were growing popcorn.

“The children in my class (new entrants) loved planting the mini gardens. They were excited to open them and loved having turns at watering them and watching them grow.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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