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? I would use this model, and the local community to help me. We have used TeAna before and that has been a wonderful springboard into storytelling, navigation, and rivers and stars.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? The kit made a big impact on me for delivering the new curriculum because it was so vast and yet so focused in specific events. For example the Claim card really exposed the gold land grab and the vulnerability of maori within this realm. But it also show

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? Yes it gave me much more confidence and brought a very local feel to the resource stories. I am a local in South Canterbury, but now I have very fresh eyes about my 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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“I really loved teaching this kit. The way is was layered made it accessible to all of my students, and the support materials created a lot of curiosity for them about our amazing history. I was quite apprehensive about teaching Aotearoa NZ Histories until I went into your resource, and I think it will be fabulous to continue, bothe for specific teaching in groups to enrichment work for more able self driven students. The questions generated from the artifacts were fantastic, and the rich photographs made great investigative focus for me...Thank you thank you thank you !!!”

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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 good model to base future exploration on

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I feel it’s resource I could come back to for years

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? Good to know

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

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“A beautifully presented kit but not as useful as it looked. Good support from school kit team but I found it confusing to start with. Lots of great info on key people in our history.”

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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? Yes - it was great to get more than one perspective.

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

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

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? Gave me the confidence that the stories that were told were true.

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“Really interesting and thorough resource that be use in a variety of ways.”

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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? Exploring our cultural narrative.

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

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

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? Made the stories more real, less abstract.

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“What an amazing resource.”

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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? Yes we are invested in our local narrative

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, Nga Taonga, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Yes - it gave me specific stories to relate to my students

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? Added impact and credibility. Celebrated diversity

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“The kit helps the stories come alive to the students. Makes them relatable and accessible.”

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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? Suggested next steps are to provide our own items / taonga to unpack in a similar fashion, developing curiosity about our local whenua.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Love the learning alongside - kaiako facilitates discussion but is not necessarily the 'fountain of (all) 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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Peace of mind with authenticity of the resources we are putting into the hands of our learners

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“Our Yr5-6 team have been unpacking the Aotea roa Histories currivulum via Pānui provocations in term 3, (migration patterns of ancient Polynesian explorers) and term 4, (exploring key moments in NZ past such as Suffragette movement, Waterfront dispute, dawn raids, sinking of Rainbow Warrior, 1981 Springbok tour). Only recently got onto 'Something is Happening Here' kit, starting with Observation' postcard. Amazed at students questioning and inferencing skills. Captivating materials that generate intense group discussion”

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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 broke it into parts - only touched the surface of the kit and will build on this next year. We used th ephotos and explored perspective - linked it to journal stories and to the resources on the A.H website.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Much more confident. Having actual resources and stories at the ready has enabled me to not put it on the back burner and get stuck in.

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? Definitely - it meant that instead of me trying to work out what it might have been - it was real accounts that I knew were factual and culturally significnt.

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“Awesome resource - that will provide years worth of investigations for students. A great way to get students to look critically at photographs, objects, newspaper articles etc...”

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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? The students were really interested in our local stories and as we already had some to move onto it went really well to integrate the two together.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I am now alot more confident - what an amazing resource. I can't wait to use it again 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? The students were more engaged knowing they were real and had actually been people.

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“Awesome kit - packed full of excellent resources. My students loved looking through them and discussing them, we took one and did some research about it, shared it and then started.”

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Posted 2 years ago