How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Hauora was current integrated learning so was used to support the learning within this. It supported our 'whare tapa wha' learning - how not only physical health was being nourished, but the planting/gardening was also enriching our spiritual (kaitiakitan

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 kit was a great enrichment resource to all the areas that were being covered within the health programme.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Many learnt knew vegetables they had not encountered, also enjoyed learning the differing growth periods etc - they followed this up with initiating planting at home too.

“We used this alongside our 'little buddy' class, so that both could learn and enjoy this great resource. Plants were planted into the school garden, and some produce has made its way to our community Pātaka Kai. Great kit, fantastic resources - thank you so much!”

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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? The Arts - drawing pictures of growth and plants (Tane Mahuta) supported our Production which was term 4, week 1 - The Atuua - the six Atuua Maths - measurement Science - growth cycle Writing - about our plants, vegetables and 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? This is quite contentious as we can only encourage healthy eating and healthy lunchboxes along with water only. However, whenever we have shared kai we do revisit and talk about what is healthy, what can we eat as a healthy option instead of 'processed fo

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Tamariki were able to identify what they knew already, naming new plants and how the seasons apply to growth and which plants in which to grow. We extended our learning to briefly revisit Matariki, of which we covered earlier in the year.

“Kia ora, the kit was a great accompaniment to my Long term Plan for term 4, which was Tane Mahuta - Guardian of the forest, covering both fauna and flora. We used it to support our learning about growth, the growth cycle, caring and nurturing plants. We also used our school garden to demonstrate additional growing of vegetables from seeds.”

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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? The children had to use mathematics (measuring), english ( building vocabulary and reading and writing) and 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? We discussed why it is important to eat vegetables.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? This kit helped the children to identify different vegetables that they hadn't heard of before.

“It was a great kit. Thanks very much.”

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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 this for measuring and statistics stands in maths. We drew our seedlings when they first came up and then later on as they grew a bit larger.

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? Easy hands on for the learners. Quick results and fun presentation. Positive conversations resulted in growing and displays were inviting.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Most of my learners were able to name many vegetables before we started this unit, however not as many had tasted the vegetables they could name or knew how these vegetables actually grew.

“As a school with a garden and on that promotes healthy eating habits, it hasn't been difficult to engage our learners in The Little Green School Kit. It was fabulous that all the learners in my classroom could be involved in growing a plant for their own garden. It was good to have a few spare plants also, as a couplee of our initial seedlings didn't survive. Our learners were keen to take their seedling pots home and share their growing experience with their whanau.”

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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 and literacy. The kit was an awesome prompt for our 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? The kit enabled our tamariki to learn about some vegetables they were unfamiliar with. We enjoy fresh healthy lunches each day so we have me spoken about healthy food and nutrition prior to receiving the kit.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Some of my year 1 and 2s could remember and identify a few vegetables.

“This was such a fun kit to use. We received our kit quiet late in term 3 so decided to wait for term 4. Thank you for sharing a fun and educational kit to share and hopefully grow the love of planting Kai and eating more 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? As above - we grew seeds and sold them, we also grew seeds and gave them away to the community.

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 became more open at trying new veges - especially ones that they had prepared.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? brilliant - I used this kit with other resources that I have with photos of vegetables and fruits.

“I love this kit. The children are so involved and excited as they see their seeds grow. This year we incorporated it into our market day, with the children decorating pots , planting seeds and selling them at the market day. We also sampled different vegetables. It is so fun and a great way to get the children involved in growing veges.”

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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? Writing- instructions for growing, instructions for cooking, writing about how long they think it would take to grow. Maths- arrays, multiplication and division, measuring water and soil.

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 all excited to try new produce they havent had before. Want to use them now at home.

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

“The children loved the kits and building on their understanding of growing things from seeds, the time difference it is for different seeds. The children brought a lot of their writing time into this by writing about why they would make a good gardener, instructions for looking after plants,”

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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 did some art and also learned some te reo vocabulary.

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 studied how important vegetables in particular are in a healthy diet. We looked at vitamins especially. We had some raw vege mini meals which were very interesting.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Some were pretty good, some of the kids only knew the bare minimum that they ate- so overall a really good improvement. The snap game was good for that and very popular.

“Wonderful resource- the kids learned so much about plants and the conditions needed for them to grow. Such a simple way to hook them into a simple biology study. Thanks so much”

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Posted 2 years ago

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