How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Used for graphing in Maths, Reading labels, Health - caring for our environment

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 own gave more desire to eat them, learnt benefits of healthy food in discussions

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Lots of children were unfamiliar with names of vegetables, but after playing the card game became more proficient at recognising these.

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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? Cross curriculum links with maths and some great writing opportunities.

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 aware of what is in their lunchbox and how healthy it is.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Greater knowledge.

“Amazing resource that was easy to use and educational.”

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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? Maths, Science, Writing, Matariki,

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 willing to try new vegetables or foods that they were reluctant to try in the school lunches when they could identify them as vegetables we grew in the kits.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students were able to see the way vegetables look before they are prepared, and look at the difference in the way different vegetables grow e.g. under the ground, tick whole vegetable or pick part.

“Students enjoyed watching their plants grow and loved being able to take them home to share with whanau.”

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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? So many! Science and art! Maths and English!

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? This tied in with our new crunch and sip breaks perfectly. Unpacking healthy eating and trying new foods was a great bonus for us all.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Massive! Student achievement was awesome in seeing their plants grow.

“Absolutely amazing kit!!! Loved by myself and my tamariki and their Whanau too”

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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? Maths: measuring the growth of the plants, time Literacy: diary writing, information reports, labelling of diagrams of plants, description writing

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? It would be great to get the kits earlier before a holiday break so they can grow at school.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children became aware of the names of lots of new vegetables

“This kit was great for introducing many of the children to new vegetables they hadn't heard of or tried. They enjoyed growing the plants and were often found in conversations discussing the changes they were noticing as the plants were growing, and delighted to take the plants home, and finally to try the foods. This kit also linked in well with our Health topic of 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? Reading, oral language, and science. It was pleasing to see some quiet students who were talking what they were doing, using 'plant words' showing on the whiteboard.

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 school has a Garden to Table programme. Quite a few students in my class tried parsley for the first time.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It helped students to read the labels, tell the difference between radish leaves from spinach leaves.

“My students were so excited to grow their kits. They loved the fact that they could put their vegetable seedlings into the school garden.”

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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? One thing we did involved a science experiment. How much water does spinach need? How much light does basil need? Various groups had the seeds and watered with an eye dropper, trying sea water and tap water. Sea water actually worked up to a point then th

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 look at what we have for school lunches, they have to have a percentage of fruit and veg, interesting which fruit and veg was the favourites each day. Our student have very little control over what they eat so didn’t get too much reaction from the

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Our kids don’t get many vegetables at home so I went and bought the veg to match the picture, we matched picture and actually veg then cooked them. Some went over better than others

“When coming back to school this year, the students were so excited to see the cabbages, cauliflowers and herbs were all ready to eat. The students also took some home and have harvested the produce and eaten it with their whanau. Loved the info that went along with the kit, we had plant projects around the class.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

Neutral

Very High

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science and food tech

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? Improved awareness of different types of vegetables - I think it would have been great if we could have grown these fully and eaten them at school but due to timings and the school holidays we couldnt this time.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Some of the students had these at home already and were often our experts at explaining the different vegetables. Lots of discussions on what they were, how you cooked them and what they tasted like.

“This was a great resource to use for young ones to plant, watch grow and take care of seedlings. Their was plenty of variety and all children could have their own which due to timing we eventually sent home for them to plant in their own garden.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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