How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? This kit enabled the students to focus on the science behind growing plants and creating healthy food choices.

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? The children enjoyed eating their own food and using the food to create healthy food choices. The children informed their families and this enabled the children's lunches to be altered to create healthy food choices.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children could plant, observe and eat the food they grew. They were involved throughout the process and could inform others about their plant growth.

“This was a fantastic kit for a year 4 class. The children were engaged and enthusiastic throughout the whole 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? Looking after creation.

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 felt excited to learn about growing vegietables.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Yes they were interested.

“Great engaging kit for the students. They loved looking after the plants in the garden.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Children wrote about seeds and growing vegetables and link this to home.

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? We discussed some of the vegetables and how they helped us t keep healthy.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? This kit worked well with our topic on seeds and plants, enabling to children to have hands on experiences growing vegetables from seed.

“Little Garden's 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? Classifying plants, Hauora-Importance of eating/Oral language/Numeracy .

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? Awareness that it is important to eat vegetables/ we can grow our own.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? In discussions pictures helped identify as well as looking at individual plants.

“Tumeke! My Junior Class enjoyed growing their plants. This was great for Oral Language and integrating 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? Health/ Science/ Writing

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? Many wanted to continue planting vegetables at home or trying them!

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Many didn't know the names of the vegetables and after doing this they did!

“Children loved making their little gardens. They all grew well too!”

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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 working on statistics and we worked out how many children like vegetables and how many do not or do not know what they are

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 only chose vegetables that they knew

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Some vegetables were new to them and they didn't know what they were choosing

“The children enjoyed looking after the seedlings. It was the process of planting the seeds that intrigued them. It was great seeing how fast they grew and we measured the time it took for the seeds to sprout. Also learnt the type of vegetables they ate and and finding out about herbs.”

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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? This was a great opportunity to incorporate STEM activities where we ran different experiments on. the needs of plants and best environments for them.

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? By raising awareness of different vegetables and being able to taste different vegetables it has increased the amount of healthy foods which they can incorporate into their diet.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Hugely impacted. It was surprising to see just how little the children knew about different vegetables

“We found this kit to be one of the best for our tamariki. They loved the idea of being part of a secret society and next time I would like to put more effort into using different staff members to contribute to the "club" It was really interesting to see how little some of the children knew about different vegetables and how, when around their peers they were willing to give new vegetables a try which was very out of character for some.”

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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? Growth cycle

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? Excitement to eat what they have grown.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Gave them greater awareness of a greater variety of vegetables.

“This was an awesome kit - the students ended up with an amazing plethora of vegetables for eating. It's amazing what they eat when they grow it themselves.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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