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? 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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How high was student engagement throughout 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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“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? 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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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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“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? We have always looked upon our local community fondly and done a surface coverage of our local stories and history. This kit enables us to realise how important it is to go further and make sure we are respecting the journey and stories passed onto us and

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It has made me more appreciative of the body of work we need to examine with our students, a superb way to increase my understanding and all the student I work with.

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? It made us respect our local customs and delve deeper into our local iwi stories and really work hard at covering all the bases when it comes to studying our local stories and history.

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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“A fantastic way to start to try and understand a bit more about NZ histories for students and teachers alike.”

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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? We have a great relationship with the iwi of our kura, which is a privilege. The model has been great to give us more ideas of what else to seek information about and definitely a model to use.

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? It gave me great pride and confidence to be able to deliver this curriculum to my class. I learnt so much from it and it enabled my class to learn more because I already had the knowledge needed from this kit.

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? The impact was huge, knowing that the stories were authentic and developed by those whānau/hapu/iwi who those stories belonged too. I feel as though it gave the stories more meaning and my class felt like they could make connections to those iwi.

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 kit to use in our classroom. Authentic and real stories from iwi. Resources and activities were engaging and the class really enjoyed learning about the history of Aotearoa.”

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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? We might use the kit as an example of how to collect and curate artefacts that relate to a local story.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Yes. It's good to just get started and immerse the class in this new 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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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? The students were able to self-direct their journey through the links on the site. They enjoyed finding out the stories as they went along.

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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“We used this kit in a range of ways, as it was intended and as a creative writing prompt. The images were very engaging for the students.”

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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? Connecting with Ngati toa and Pataka and local historians in our community to explore our local places.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? We are psyched to get into this next year.

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? This will be answered in Term 1

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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“So sorry I thought I had already filled this out? WIth our class being so disrupted this term we have decided to start the year with the Kit, as a way to intro the new curriculum”

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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? As a kāhui ako, we are already beginning this journey, so the kit just provided an additional support for this.

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, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I am far more confident teaching in this are now.

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? This is the most important aspect of the kit. It provides reassurance that the information we are sharing and discussing with our learners is relevant, authentic, but also responsive.

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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“The kit, as always, provided a wide range of resources to support the diverse range of learners I work with. It was engaging, provoked critical thinking and generated lots of discussion.”

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Posted 2 years ago