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? We had already begun our journey. This kit has made it more real.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It has made it a tad easier to think about how it can be done. Thank you.

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? Not a huge impact for us at this time.

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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“What a brilliant resource. Thoroughly enjoyed being a part of this wonderful 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? The photographs were great to use and it prompted a lot of discussion between the students.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Good. I find you need to pick and decide what resources to use because there is so many resources around.

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 past is very important and w to know where we come from and what happened

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 excellent with a lot of good resources.”

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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? I could definitely use this model and helps to form a journey of inquiry.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It has helped though greater explanation and some inside into answers for each card would have been great.

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 was good to know the stories were authentic.

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 something happened here kit was very interesting. I did find it hard to navigate and more teacher guidance would have helped. The children enjoyed learning about the different 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? Great - based EOTC activities around pictures and finding out about local places

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Great resources linked - helpful for other Histories topics

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? Local stories have more relevance for learners at Year 4

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 kit and prompts for teachers/support. But, it was too advanced for my Year 4 class and did not have any local connections for them (which they need), therefore it was not right for my group. But, love the detail and the content and adapted some ideas linked to our own context.”

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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 great starting point

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? Not hugely

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? Not really important where they didn’t relate to our localised curriculum

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 a tricky resource to use with my year 4/5 class. L felt it was better suited to older children.”

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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? I was already exploring our local history prior to engaging withy the kit. I do not yet feel confident with the"model"to apply it elsewhere yet. We have only just begun with the kits and are still using them (only started two weeks ago as some of our teac

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? It has been really helpful but I need more time with it to really understand it. Still learning really but I love what I see so far.

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? Amazing - It made it so much more authentic and I felt privileged to be able to engage with the taonga they shared.

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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“Lovely website - laid out well, easy to follow. Beautiful resources in the kit for learners to engage with.”

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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 in the process of developing our localised curriculum the resources in this kit spark ideas for how this could be done.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Was a great starting point !

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? Made a greater connection and a broader perspcetive.

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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“Each story introduced a range of perspectives, using a range of sources. It was great to shows students photos, documents, maps, national archives, museums, oral and social histories and digital store houses. This unit has acted as a guide for how we could develop our own localised stories aiming for broad perspectives and a range of resources.”

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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 would be cool to apply a similar structure to our local myths and legends. I attended some P.D by Dr Peter Meihana and there are some amazing local stories that I’d love for the kids to learn about. Just need to piece together all of the resources.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It’s shown me a number of different online resources that I could use when delivering this curriculum. It’s also shown me another structure for literacy that enables students to have an element of choice and still be extended. I’d like to know what site w

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 gave the stories authenticity and the students were interested in finding out more about the individuals. It was especially effective when it was about an individual as opposed to a group. I found that they seemed to relate more.

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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“We were still working on this kit prior to me leaving for maternity leave. I look forward to teaching this with my next class as the students were all super motivated with their learning. The way that it is structured enabled students extend themselves. Many of my students were motivated to try the tasks above their curriculum level as they were interested in the topics. I did however find it a little bit tricky with topics being released gradually as there were some topics that they really wanted to do but due to me leaving at the end of T2 and the topics not having been released yet we never got to do them.”

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Posted 2 years ago