Aotearoa NZ Histories 22 Reviews

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How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Gave me ideas and approaches I could use with local stories, archives and places.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? National Library

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Given me lots of ideas, information and understanding of ways to approach teaching and learning. Also improved my own knowledge.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Good that they represented whole community. All POVs covered.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This was very useful as it provided great teaching and learning ideas that could be adapted for use with other resources. Lots of discussion around different viewpoints and evaluating the source of stories and information made it a very valuable resource. Almost too much to cover!”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? .

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Digital NZ, National Library

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? .

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? .

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Not to much related to Canterbury. I found most things were general nz or up north

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? NZ On Screen, National Library, Papers Past, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? These are good resources to help deliever NZ Aotearoa histories. However needs a lot of scaffolding for students.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? I think it is important to involve iwi. When I used the kit many iwi stories were not avaliable

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This kit was at academic level for students. I wouldn't recommend to any students unders year 10”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Partially, it's good to get an understanding of how to use the archives to then explore more relevant stories to our area

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Digital NZ, NZ On Screen, National Library, Papers Past

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It's given me a good head start and ideas on how to delve deep into different stories

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? no impact

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Great kit that helps students delve deep into the stories around us.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Our school has a few local stories that most of our teachers know. Getting these stories told with a connection to iwi and our local community would be powerful. Using the same model is a great idea that could be pursued.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Cenotaph, Digital NZ, NZ On Screen, National Library

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? The Coded Curriculum download and the Curriculum wheel in the kit were helpful to know how the tasks related to the Aotearoa NZ History Curriculum.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? I like the fact that these are stories told by local iwi and communities and this gives the stories authenticity.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“The physical kit was fabulous and my students were curious to explore the stories and meanings related to the objects. The pepeha was a great way to have clues to unlock where the place where something has happened. My students were challenged by the research aspect related to some tasks and needed to go further with their own searches to find information for some of the cards. There was so much to explore with this kit and I envisage using it again with a lot more teacher guidance. Thanks for another fabulous resource School Kit.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Some of the artefacts led to questions about places in our area. Definitely.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Digital NZ, National Library, Papers Past, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Great resource - lots of info at a deeper level and in story format.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Helped with confidence that we were delivering the right thing!

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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“Great resource. Loved the artefacts and the depth of research into the stories.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? It was a fantastic first step into social studies for my year 7/8 class & provided me with lots of new NZ resources that I didn't know existed.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? National Library

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? The kit provided the content (stories) and also the different methods for researching an area or a story.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Yes, the fact that these stories were developed in collaboration with local iwi/community made me feel very confident to deliver this kit.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“An amazing resource with an incredible amount of content! I allowed my year 7/8 class to each pick one place card and explore that area. My more capable students were able to explore the content and have created Google Slides of their findings that are college level work. However, lots of my students found even the Tasks 1 and 4 (designed for year 5/6 students) quite challenging and needed lots of teacher support. In hindsight I would work through one place card with the majority of my students next time.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Identifying places of interest to maori - ngatihine. Using community network to source people who know the history.

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? National Library

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I realise it isn't easy to find the right people to share the history, but know it is important to identify places of interest to maori in our own backyard and teach that to our tamariki, first.

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? Yes

How effective was the student facing website (somethinghappenedhere.co.nz) for your learners?

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How effective were the Teacher Support Materials in the School Kit Squad website?

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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Our tamariki appreciated the effort that was put into the kit.

How significant was the impact of this kit on your confidence in delivering the Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content?

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How would you rate your knowledge of the new Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum content prior to using this kit?

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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Made connections with whānau and what they remembered as a kid. Students wanted to know more, which led to more talk about Maori history from Tai tokerau.”

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Posted 2 years ago