How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Topic work Reading 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? Most of the children have gardens at home.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Made them more aware of herbs and also discussed ways on how e can cook certain vegetables.

“Loved the kit and the children enjoyed planting and watching their plants grow. It tied in well with our topic of "how our garden grows" so very happy with our little 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? We used it with our technology learning and I used it in writing where the students wrote about their favourite vegetables.

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 excited being part of the club and watching their seedlings grow. I was able to incorporate 5 plus a day and got students to send in recipes their family had made for dinner using the vegetables they had at home.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? A lot of them didn't know a lot of the more uncommon ones and enjoyed learning about the vegetable that their little garden was growing.

“This was heaps of fun. Students were engaged from the start and were eager to find out more. I did a slow reveal over a couple of days to build intrigue and excitement.”

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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 were able to use this topic in our writing and 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? The children were more aware of eating in a more healthy way. The were keen to make an effort to eat more fruit and vegetables.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children were able to identify lots of vegetables once we were finished.

“The students were very engaged in the Little Garden Kit. They loved planting their plants and watching them grow. They loved the challenge of trying new vegetables.”

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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? Oral language, discussion. Maths, measurement and statistics.

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 it opened their eyes to a few vegetable options that they actually really enjoyed the taste of. Hopefully this will lead to healthier eating at home through increased vegetable consumption.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? This was one of the best elelments of this kit. It gave the students the chance to see vegetables grow from a seedling, and it gave them the opportunity to try different vegetables that they have never tried at home before.

“I found the kit good and the students were engaged in the process. I found personally that I was getting lost with the instructions at the beginning of the kit. Not kowing what the kit was, was a cool element, but it made it challenging for me to know how exactly it would fit in the context of the concetp we were already doing that term. I also found communicating through the app/discussion forum confusing - I didn't quite know where to look for things and was just generally a bit lost. It was fortunate that I had other teachers who had done this kit previously but a slightly different version of it. I was able to get clarity on what I needed to do from them, but otherwise I probavly would still have been a bit lost. Once the kit was up and running it was a great learning experience.”

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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? This tied in perfectly to our science unit this term and of course lead to some great writing.

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? We have a large focus on healthy eating at our school and Harold the Giraffe often focuses on eating as well. The children got to take home there plant so hopefully they will eat the produce.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Great, the card game definitely helped with that.

“This is the second time my class has done this kit and they thoroughly enjoyed being part of a 'secrete club'. It was a little bit difficult to start with part of kit arrive late but we got there in the end.”

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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? Writing - poems and songs about the characters Maths - measuring how much they had grown

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? Built an awareness on the VARIETY of veges available!! So many. ALSO, very beneficial in terms of 'growing veges' together and that togetherness and Te Ao Maori world views

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Great, and then allowed lots of chat about favourite veges, hated ones and learning about new ones which we do not usually have/eat

“Another amazing Kit that had the kids fizzing. We were the envy of other classes at our school with our veges growing in the sun. I mentioned in the other feedback about the Te Ao Maori world view around cultivating veges. Awesome kit and we loved it.”

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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? Could cross this into other areas like 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? Kids are more aware of wanting to try new things and the need to include a variety of vegetables in our diet

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students were able to identify a wide variety of vegetables that they had not heard of before.

“Clubs are Cool”

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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 supports our integrated curriculum approach. I'm able to bring in measurement, science and literacy using the plants as the 'hook'

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 talked about healthy eating and nutrition but this wasn't where the focus was for my tauira.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The tauira used this kit in a different direction - that of growing, looking after and measuring the plants, rather than identification

“This kit is always a hit with my new entrant class.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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