How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Art, maths - measurement, health

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 recognised more vegetables and were happy to try eating them. Because we worked as a team they encouraged each other to try them. I saw an improvement in lunch boxes as the tamariki said they asked for vegetables to be added as well as fruit.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? I was amazed at how well my new entrant tamariki learned the names of these vegetables.

“What a fantastic resource this is. My tamariki were engaged with the activities and took on the responsibility of growing something of their own. The first thing they would do each morning was check on their plant and make sure it had water if it needed it. They had a sense of pride in their plant, talking to others (including any adult who happened to pass by) about the stages of growth and that it was 'real' food that they were growing. This unit linked beautifully with our Health unit as well.”

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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? Measurement. comparisons and Statistics in mathematics Visual Art / Science - plant life cycles, observational drawing

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? Children commented on trying new vegetables at home and encouraged their parents to have more. Wahoo!

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? A number of children were unaware of a number of the vegetables. This awareness was definitely increased.

“A fabulous resource”

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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? measurement - measuring growth and discussing different growth rates. Writing - recipes, how to care for plants, what plants need to survive comparing prices of fruit/vegetables at supermarket compared to growing your own Art - use of vegetable dye and o

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? exposing some tamariki to new vegetables and giving different foods a try.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Extremely helpful!

“This was an awesome kit - with loads of curriculum links. This kit also worked in perfectly with our localised He kākano' curriculum. Kaiako and tamariki enjoyed all of the learning experiences. .”

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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 used these as part of our own compostable unit so didn't really use your specified plans

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 made vegetable soup as part of this unit and most of our students (even reluctant ones) tried the soup

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

“Awesome kit, the children in our class loved it”

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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? Such a great way to integrate lots of different learning in health, science, literacy, mathematics. Children loved learning about the different veges and this linked well into health as well as us encouraging healthy food choices at read and feed times an

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? Lots of discussion around the benefits of choosing fruits and veges - linked nicely to our talks about the brain and their learning as well as the food pyramid and the foods we should be choosing 'most of the time.' We had also been to the Life Education

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It is amazing the number of children that only have a very basic vegetable knowledge and may not have been exposed to lots of different veges at home. So yes this was awesome at enhancing their knowledge around different veges.

“What an awesome resource for our tamariki! They just loved the lessons, the resources and being so involved in their learning. Thank you so much!”

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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? Science, writing, 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? The liked exploring the garden, seeing what was there and getting to pick and try it.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It was great and they become more interested in exploring the school garden and what was there.

“The kids loved this kit! Getting to plant their own seed and watching it grow. They got to draw their favourite vegetables and least favourite and share them with the class.”

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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? Science, arts and communication.

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 was a great stepping stone for talking about healthy kai in our homes and lunchboxes

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

“Loved the little gardens and how children took ownership. Planting was easy and as the seedlings grew bigger they tamariki took them home to plant. They then shared recipes and samples with the 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? Reading: research about the plants, pests, companion planting Maths: quantities, time, record keeping ( stats ) Art: drawing Writing: recount, poetry about the garden/plants/insects in general Health: mindfulness

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? Great discussion starters. Great visual support material. Plenty of variety regarding which veges we eat raw ( lettuce, radish etc ) and which ones we often cook ... and what we get out of the cooking process for veges like spinach.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Because there is a range of veges the students learnt what the unusual ones were.

“Fantastic way to link so many areas of the curriculum - science, writing, reading research, drawing, mindfulness. So many skills developed through hands on learning. Quality resource with great teacher support.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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