How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Was able to use it in maths, reading, writing and health. Also linked in with our Life Education topics.

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? Knowing that vegetables are easy to grow and that they exist before the supermarket.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The students enjoyed seeing how vegetables came about. Most only believe that vegetables came from the supermarket.

“Was an absolute hit in my class.”

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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 Little Garden League Kit fits perfectly with our topic, there is no Planet B and with our end-of-year presentation, the Lorax. We also used (Maths) our number knowledge on this awesome project.

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? Many became aware of the benefits of healthy eating.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? This kit made a huge impact on my students' ability to identify vegetables. They were able to use their other senses and imagination in recognizing plants.

“Little Garden League Feedback Gardening for my students who are visually impaired or blind encourages the exploration of the environment using the senses of touch, smell, hearing, and taste. Gardening enhances these young gardeners' participation in their families and community and enriches their personal lives by helping them gain firsthand experiences through the use of their remaining senses and in the tending and nurturing of a living thing. They can establish a relationship with the plants and animals in their garden or yard that, in turn, helps them to better understand their place in the world. While engaged in digging, weeding, watering, trimming, and caring for plants, young visually impaired, blind, or multi-impaired gardeners can improve their levels of cognitive development, expand their attention spans, and decrease the level of stress and anxiety in their lives. This helps to diminish aggressiveness. This Little Garden League Kit fits perfectly with our topic, There is no Planet B and with our end-of-year presentation, the Lorax which taught us how to respect the environment and all the living creatures that will help us preserve the planet for ourselves and future generations. Through the Little Garden League, our class learned about Plants. 1) What Does a Plant Need? 2) What Do Plants Need? 3) What Affects Plant Growth? 4) Parts of a Plant 5) Parts of a Seed 6) How Do Seeds Get Planted By Nature and Seeds Planted By Us? 7) Seeds, Fruit and Plants 8) Plant Parts We Eat 9) Plant Life Cycle 10) Pumpkin Life Cycle 11) Life Cycle of a Carrot 12) Life Cycle of Corn 13) What is Photosynthesis? and 14) Germinating Seeds. The students also enjoyed the Vege Patch Match, Little Garden League origin story, earning a membership certificate, secret member-only code, and of course, the badges! Little Garden League was our class Science project this Term 4, 2022. We were lucky to be given the kit for free. We are grateful to the sponsors of this lovely resource! Through the kit, I was able to provide my students who are blind, deafblind, or have low vision, including those with additional disabilities plenty of opportunities to learn about plants. We all loved and got excited to see the plants grow each day. My students will go home next week with the plants that we grew from our science project ready to be planted in their gardens. We cannot wait to harvest these vegetables. Once again, many thanks for the fantastic Little Garden League Kit. We learned a lot from it. Arohanui, Shirley Mendoza Resource Teacher Vision BLENNZ Homai Campus #BornAccessible m. 021667853 w. Shirley.Mendoza@Blennz.school.nz”

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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? I used the kit with my School Envio group which is offered as a co-curricular club.

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? Learners were excited to get involved and start growing their own vegetables.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Learners knew most of the vegetables

“I absolutely loved this kit. It was well resourced and the online support and website were extremely helpful. The outline on how to implement the kit into your classroom was clear and easy to follow.”

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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, oral language, science, writing, reading

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? sampled different ones

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? looking at leaves and working out what they are

“Practical, fun, helping the children understand the process of growth.”

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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? Great inquiry topic.

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 excited to watch the plants grow and then plant them in their own gardens to hopefully make some things out of the food!

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Kids could identify lots of the veges.

“Kids loved planting the little gardens and watching them grow. They loved getting the badges and still wear them now!”

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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? Science - parts of a plant / what plants need Health - Healthy eating

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 had discussions about what makes a healthy meal and some talked about their favourite vegetables.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children were able to learn about and identify the names of vegetables they didn't know before.

“At the start of the year, we had learnt about parts of a plant, pollination etc...so this was a good review of their learning. The children loved planting their own vegetables and watching them grow. They learnt about different types of vegetables (some they had never heard of before). We had some 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? We managed to bring in some maths around measurement of the plants as they grew. We did instructions writing and diary writing. We brought in key competencies of self management, participation and contributing when working on our 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? Children learn far better when the have a hands on activity and there is far greater buy-in to the message being promoted.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children enjoyed seeing the different leaves that grew before the vegetables appeared. It also encouraged children to try different vegetables 9some we brought in ahead of time)

“Thank you for this fabulous set. The children were thrilled to see their efforts turn into plants. They learnt so much along the way about how to plant and nurture to get a result. it was a good way to approach the idea of healthy eating and what great food groups are.”

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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? Linked into so many areas of the curriculum - great in my STEAM programme.

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? It led to lots of good (and at times, robust) conversations about healthy eating and different opinions around what is healthy.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The kids thought they knew lots about veges but still ended up learning more.

“We had a great time with the kit. The kids thoroughly enjoyed exploring the kit, playing the games, and of course planting!”

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Posted 3 years ago

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