How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Crossed into our enviro time, health, and code breaking for maths

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 as a whole seem to have a reasonable high number that eat healthy. Just reinforced what is happening at home

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Worked really well for some of kids

“It turned into a pretty chaotic part of the term when we began with lots of sickness within our class. Due to this it was probably a bit rushed. But the students really enjoyed the challenges and code breakers. They were really engaged in planting the seeds and taking them home to plant into gardens.”

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Posted 3 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? Statistics. Science and 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? Unfortunately our school has not had shared food this year due to covid so we were not able to eat at school.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? They were interested and made the connection between the plant and the parts we use as fruits and vegetables.

“Lots of fun and they loved having their own plant to grow. Great learning opportunities.”

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Posted 3 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...arrays and measure. Multiplication and division. Measure of soil to pot litres and length when planting in garden. Literacy and IT, information report writing and researching for information. Reading non fiction about plants and how to grow. Socia

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 students enjoyed trying new herbs in salads and straight from the plants and garden. We were able to have from garden to plate meals using the herbs especially. The corn is still growing and will be shared with next year's students.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? We are a diverse group of students from a few different countries this year. As a group we learnt a lot about how each culture using vegetables and herbs.

“The students loved the Little Gardens and the league. They learnt a lot about their plant, making and writing information reports and sharing with their classmates. The students took their plant home for their gardens and we planted the sweetcorn and popcorn in our class garden to share with next year's students. A way of giving back to others. They tried eating herbs they have not tried before...for example coriander and chives. Thank you for the kit”

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Posted 3 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? It provided opportunities for literacy, maths and science in the classroom.

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 really well with our school hangi and trying new foods/vegetables that they thought they wouldn't like.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It was a useful resource for those students not overly familiar with vegetables at home, especially vegetables such as swedes and turnips.

“The students loved the little garden kit and were so excited and completely engaged throughout the whole term. All four classes in our team took part in the little garden kit so it was awesome for the kids to see how the other classes seedlings were growing. They absolutely loved the responsibility of being in charge of watering the seedlings and making sure they were being looked after. This is such a fantastic and engaging kit that covers so many areas of the curriculum.”

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Posted 3 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? Lots into Science with the living world. We also linked the Protect, Grow, Taste with our values. We found some Journal readings that linked with LGG, Garden to Table Programme, Enviro School values, and our healthy schools values.

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? Very positive. Lots of links made with prior knowledge - was great to see the students growing their knowledge.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Great improvement, lots of further questions from students and great discussions amongst students that did know or had tried different ones that others hadn't.

“My Year 0's to 4's highly enjoyed the Little Garden Kit. We did struggle with the weather once we decided to replant our seedlings.”

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Posted 3 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? Social Studies - communities that grow their own foods, versus the cost of buying at a supermarket. Mathematics - how much vegetables cost to buy vs grow.

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 students all wanted to try the new vegetables, and enjoyed talking about their favourites. The kit inspired a lot of good conversations about their favourite foods, whether they were healthy and how we could add more veges into our meals/diet.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The kids enjoyed learning about new vegetables that had not previously heard of. We had to do additional research and learning to show them images of the veges (not the cartoon characters), and we had great in depth conversations about how the different v

“The kit arrived with enough planters for each of my students to have two plants each. The instructions were simple to follow and the decorations and everything else were a great resource for setting up the Little Garden in the classroom. The resources are probably aimed at kids a little higher than New Entrant, as I found we couldn't really complete the letters to their full potential but there was enough to engage with that the letters still worked well in our class.”

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Posted 3 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? Participating and contributing during Discovery time, planting, weeding, researching fruit and vegetables they have planted. Writing, Speaking.

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? Tied in beautifully with Life Education and Food and Nutrition. Informal lunchbox discussion was huge.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? We found out about vegetables that children hadn't realised existed. Lots of conversation about what they eat and plant at home.

“Sorry, not a review type.”

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Posted 3 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? Writing - A diary of growth, Instructional writing. Maths - measurement. Making soup -

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 loved making vegetable soup for healthy eating

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Lots of children did not know lots of these vegetables.

“Children loved growing their plants and checked them often for signs of life. They learned about the needs of keeping a plant alive and parts of a plant and healthy eating.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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