How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Science, health, enviro schools

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? Much more aware of the different types of veges. More excited to try them because we grew them.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children were able to identify the vegetables and quite a few were unknown this year.

“Such a fun engaging kit for the children. It created excitement being in the secret club. Badges were a hit!”

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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? We wrote stories about our New World Little Garden lessons. This was a great hands on experience to prompt some amazing 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? Our tamariki love to eat healthy but this isn’t always what’s available to them at home. It was awesome to show them how things grown into fruits and vegetables from the garden… rather than just thinking they come from Pak n Save.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Our kids loved making up names for themselves using fruits and vegetables that started with the same sound as their name… we had to do a bit of research to find a vegetable or fruit that each child was happy with, it was a lot of laughs and fun for the ki

“Amazing kit! The tamariki were engaged in the lessons and excited to learn about 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? As above

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? All are keen to eat the vegetables in our upcoming hangi.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? They tamariki went on to explore different vegetables on google.

“An excellent resource. The tamariki have enjoyed every step of their learning journey with the Little Garden resource. They have rushed into the room every morning to see if their seeds have sprouted even more than the day before. This resource has also increased the amount and quality of oral language. It has also been awesome for writing especially with the use of adjectives used when describing the seeds (tiny; small…) to the plants to the environment the seeds were planted in. Planting the little gardens lead onto the local garden shop owner coming along to school and helping the tamariki plant vegetable plants in our school garden all in preparation for our hangi in early February; a meet the whanau night. They discovered the difference between weeds and plants as they prepared the garden patch. Weeds were put in the compost pile.”

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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? My students were eager to read and write stories about gardening and looking after plants. They even created art with plants and nature as the main theme.

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 was a great was to start our inquiry into sustainability. The students loved every moment of it.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It made a massive impact on introducing the different kinds of vegetables and the specific features to identify each vegetable.

“My class and I absolutely loved this gardening kit. It was a fantastic way to introduce Kaitiakitanga and sustainability to my students. It gave real authentic learning, and enabled my students the opportunity to make connections and have great discussions about the importance of plants. My students loved getting their hands dirty and working in the garden!”

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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? We tied in with art, inquiry 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? We discussed what is good for our bodies and what benefits we can nutritionally from vegetables. They were keen to give new things a go.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It provided good discussion around what vegetables they did know and like to eat. New or interesting ones we were able to Google to find out more

“The kids loved this hands on learning and tied in nicely with our cause and effect focus. They enjoyed watching their seedling grow and being responsible for their own My Little Garden.”

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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? Used with our school Garden to Table program

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 knew this with some lessons from our school garden

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Students knew most of the vegetables and then researched ones they didn't

“Always love this kit as students get really excited about the planting and watching the seedlings grow”

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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? We were able to link this across science, social science and the arts.

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? Yes - when harvesting kids were really keen to try what they have grown.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Not much. The kids were more focused of having them grow and really just stuck to the ones they knew - corn was a big hit!

“We used the kit as a hook into our theme of Tūmanako hope (we had previously be learning about sustainability). This was an extremely engaging way for learners to leave a legacy of hope behind. We created a school garden and everyone was so exited to harvest the crops!”

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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? Gave the kids opportunities to be able to take lessons in science as well as promoting healthy eating for our brainfood breaks

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? Got excited to bring foods to school that were related to the food they were growing

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? were able to identify the most common vegetables and were excited to learn more about ones they didn’t know

“So much fun, kids were really engaged in wanting to learn more about how plants grew and how long it took for different varieties of plants to grow. They were encouraged to join in on lessons and gained a lot of knowledge on how to take care of plants. Each plant was named with the seed name as well as their name to encourage them to look after them. They used this as a challenge to see which one grew the fastest”

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Posted 3 years ago

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