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 of opportunities for cross curriculum integration. Maths graphing and measuring. Art, reading and 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? Children were keen to grow and show their whanau about the vegetables

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Children learnt about root vegetables and which ones were easy to grow

“Children were engaged and excited to learn about veges”

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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 Veggie patch match (sorting and classifying objects) Measuring plant growth Code breaking Literacy Reading about veggies Writing applications Finding jokes (shared powerpoint file in Seesaw) Writing thier own codes for others to break Veggie poetry

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 tried a variety of cooked and raw veggies, they picked and ate from our school garden and made a shared meal to end the topic. Overall, parent feedback has been positive, with the children being more willing to try some of the veg they serve

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children in my class are 95% ELL. The varieties of veggies that would have been unfamiliar to kids who have always lived in NZ proved very difficult for these children to identify, therefore the veggie patch match game was pitched too high

“This kit provided everything I needed to start a term long gardens project with my year 2s. They were collecting the seedlings at home as well and enjoyed the extra special challenges and secret codes. Lots of children tried and enjoyed veggies they had never tasted before”

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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? Measuring of growth incorporated maths brilliantly as well as writing about our vegetable growing experiences. We researched together about the differing vegetables and were then able to cook together with them too! Science, maths, literacy and the ARTs a

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? Massively - because they all now know the real value of vegetables (health benefits etc) but they also aren’t scared to try new vegetables now because they have and have discovered that that in fact quite like them.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Massive impact. Students could see the difference in growing quickly so loved that being juniors. They really enjoyed taking responsibility for their pod and measuring and watering etc.

“Absolutely loved it - students and teacher!.”

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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? Digital technologies. We don't use digital tech in my year 2/3 class but for the little gardens we paired up with the year 7/8 class. They each planted one and then they had to research what it looked like and what it needed to grow etc on the computer.

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? Some of the children were excited to try their vegetables when they grew and said they hadn't had that veg before.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Ours haven't grown up so at the moment this hasn't really changed too much. Hopefully in the new year it will though.

“The children loved planting the little gardens and really enjoyed working with older students to do it. A few of them have been regularly checking on the plants as well to watch them grow. We still haven't planted ours in the garden yet as this term has been so busy it has been hard finding time with the other class that we worked with. Were the kits available earlier last year or maybe I just didn't see an email until later but I think it was too late this year as we are now running out of time to watch them grow. I still think they are a great idea though and will definitely order again (in fact I just tried to reserve a farm bricks one but couldn't as they have all gone.) Thank you for making these things available to schools. It's such a valuable resource. I work at quite a structured school so there isn't too much time for going of script and doing things like this especially how we wanted to do it, with another class. This has meant things have taken longer and there has been less time to focus on our kit than I have been used to in the past.”

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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? Learning how to say and write the plant names, understanding the life cycle of a plant, use of technology to document the plant's process.

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 linked with our inquiry of healthy eating, so children were able to explore this concept further. They were excited to talk about the fruit and vege that were in their lunchboxes.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? A lot of children didn't know what a lot of the vegetables were, so it allowed us to explore that more.

“The children Yr 0-1 absolutely loved their little garden's kit. There were plenty of resources for all the children to use and they were all engaged in the learning. The loved being part of the process of raising their plant and were excited to come to school to see how much had grown. They were able to continue their learning and take it home to plant in their own 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 incoperated this kit into maths, writing and reading. It was great

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 were enthusiastic towards learning about healthy foods.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students recognised the common vegetables.

“Children LOVED this kit. Extremely hands on and engaging for my junior 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? Heath 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? Theyre aware of plants, parts of plants and using plants in cooking.

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

“It’s so great getting the little gardens, we’ve incorporated some cooking skills that link with the vegetables that we grow. We also have been looking at the flowers and their companion plants.”

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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? This linked into writing and art as well for us.

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 focus linked with our school enviro team making pasta sauce from school grown tomatoes so they were able to make the link with that. We also talked about how to fuel our bodies for athletics.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children had quite a bit of knowledge but this did support a bigger group of vegetables to discuss.

“The class were very engaged in the planting and were keen to get other plants going as well.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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