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 unit formed our inquiry unit for the term, it also linked into your reading and writing programmes.

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 were encouraged to include more veges (and fruit) into their lunchboxes each day. We introduced an additional 'read & feed' time where they were just to eat fruit & veges out of their lunchboxes.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Overall, my students had a good knowledge of vegetables - what they look like and how they grow. We are a high decile school and many families have a range of vegetables with their dinners, and also have vege gardens at home or at grandparent's houses.

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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? Science, Healthy eating, Maths-growth and measuring

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? Being exposed to some different vegetables. The children tried foods they hadn't before.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children learnt a lot of different vegetables that they had not come across before.

“Kids were totally engaged and loved the by in with being club members.”

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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? We used it for science - fair testing, writing about our plants and then later linked it to the Jack and the beanstalk. It also linked in with health and PE as we talked about healthy eating and exercise as we had also just done our cross country and were

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 are aware of how important vegetables are as part of a healthy diet

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The knowledge of students really grew in this area

“A great kit. Our class really enjoyed it and were very engaged in their learning.”

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Posted 3 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? There were many opportunities for cross curricular learning. For science l, our focus was on minibeasts and the gardens were a great place to find some. We used the kit during for mini lessons in maths - counting, growth over time etc

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? My students were keen to grow the seeds and were even happier knowing that they were growing something they could eat

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Some of my students learned a whole bunch of new vegetables. There were many that they had never seen before.

“This kit worked well for my year 2/3 class. The timing was perfect as we had just completed our decorative garden space and were moving into vegetable gardening. We had a good amount of resources and all students were able to plant at least one seed independently. They enjoyed watching their seeds grow and we were able to plant them into bigger pots before sending them home to be planted in the ground or a large pot.”

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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? Children tried following the instructions to involve themselves in their learning, especially for reading and writing. Using measurement while soaking the soil.

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? Through planting and growing vegetables, children were able to successfully sell the vegetables to parents and use the money to buy more vegetables and promote healthy eating habits.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Children were able to read and see the pictures of the vegetables. They were able to identify how long it takes to grow each vegetable and extra information to share with their parents.

“Little Garden was a hook activity for the children.”

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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? It linked well into science. They were very interested in learning about plants and how they grow and why.

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 were eager to know what they had gotten. They learnt about how they could use those vegetables in recipes, how they grow differently and also what makes each vegetable different

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? They were already very independent with this as they’d done them at home before. It was great though because they could support eachother if they hadn’t done it before and it became very student led and the students became the teachers.

“The kids loved it when it was introduced. They loved having them especially since they’d had them from the supermarket before. They took care of their plants everyday, remembered to water them and were very interested in learning about the different vegetables. They also all loved the submission to being apart of a “secret club” and the badges to match that were a huge hit.”

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Posted 3 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? It was the perfect topic to cover across all the curriculum areas. We wrote about them, sketched our seedlings used counting the leaves and plants for maths and even attempted to make things to cover our seedlings to keep safe from bugs and weather.

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? I think the children are all aware how good food impacts our minds and bodies. I saw an improvement in their lunchboxes.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? When some of plants didn't grow successfully I bought in veges for the children to try. They were actually surprised they liked the taste.

“My year 1 class has really enjoyed watching our plants grow. They experienced the highs and lows of weather and how it can affect plants and the growing process. Lots of excitement overall. Can't wait to do it all again with my next 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? Food chains, further investigation into plants.

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? More buy in to try new things - awesome!

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The kids really enjoyed the game that came with the kit. Lots of discussion around plants they didn't know.

“The kids loved being involved in the planting and growing of the food.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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