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? Yes absolutely and have already done such continuing with the same model and making efforts to curate our own local kit

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? Having the resources and stories already curated made a huge difference as there are only so many hours in any one day and we are always sooo busy

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? Knowing that the stories had authentic voice and collaboration made a huge impact on my choice to use 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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“We absolutely loved our Something Happened here Kit! What an incredible resource, it's so well put together and really designed to provoke thinking, discussion and learning. It is not just a once off wither I can see that this will become a permanent part of our resources available to the students for engaging thinking and discussion.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Not really.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Not much as we have covered a lot previously using Wakelets.

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? Gave perspective.

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 idea and information is great but I found it quite daunting to try and work out which postcard related to work which topic. For example, on the large poster with the topics (ie Jewish) it would have a number but I couldn’t, without reading them all, work out which post card it related to. We did some but the students found some a bit difficult.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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

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? A little more confident with the materials but an answr guide would also be good

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. Students were more engaged

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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“Children struggled as there's alot to look through Even as a teacher it took alot for me to find the answers, would br good if there is an answer guide of some sort. I think there's alot of good content to be explored but there just so much to look through”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We already do explore the history of this area. I don't know the model well enough to know.

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? There is so much in the new AHC - that just getting my head around that let alone gaining confidence using a new way of delivery - there's a lot of new in all of that. Possibly ask the question again in a couple of years. Also with your multi choice

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? None. We are in Southland.

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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“My Year 8 class found this a really interesting resource and for my most curious - fun and they enjoyed it. It was a new and thought provoking journey into our histories. I loved the fact different perspectives were explored. However for the learners who struggle to read and navigate easily around various different types of texts etc. It was a major road block for a lot of them. I think in part because there was little scaffolding or a clear road map in terms of do this first - this second....I guess on reflection it is a different way of engaging with material... I will be using it again next year but will have to be aware that I may need to give greater support and guidance for those students who might get lost and overwhelmed by it.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I'm not sure, I need to have a lot more time to be able to explore the history of our local area, you don't have this kind of time when you are full-time teaching and all the extras that go with this

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 am getting glimpses of ideas of ways to teach the Aotearoa Histories Curriculum - but it's so big it's hard to know how to start. I loved that these stories were readily available and contained links that could lead us further is we wished.

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 stories were real and included details about personal lives which the children could relate to 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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“I found I was really only using the stories and some of the links to take us a bit further. Some stories prompted lots of discussion, others seemed to not interest the children much. It didn't help that I have very little knowledge of much of our history so I was wading through stories & links just before using them with the children (so that they were fresh in my head) and I still feel rather out of my depth. We tried to use some of the artifacts after reading the relevant stories but I struggled to link these so I think that's why the students didn't seem particularly interested. I would love to continue having access to the stories and links in the future because I still feel like I'm only just getting going with working out how to use them to excite the students about NZ's past.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? It's actually tricky to find meaningful information about our local area online which is what kids want to do. We have chosen instead to use the skills of our local museum curators to guide us. The kit though is a fantastic complement to it. I would not h

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? As I said previously I have only used the photo's so far. We started with analysing these and thinking about who took them, why, when, what type of photo it was, what we could see in it, how it might have been taken and then what was happening in Aotearoa

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? Everything in the kit is just fantastic but it is a lot of information to wade through and I imagine I'll still be getting fresh use out of the kit for the next couple of years!

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 kit is so cool. I confess I have only used the photo's so far and we have then used what we learnt from this to analyse photo's from our town. I'm really looking forward to using all the other bits and pieces in the kit for future investigations. I was quite unsure how to go about teaching our country and local history so the kit has been a great springboard for ideas on how to go about it in an engaging and meaningful way. Thanks so much School kits, you are awesome.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The kit allowed us to plan how we will be able to explore history in our local area and gave us insight on how to find resources and who to ask for expert knowledge. The kit was extremely relevant for us and engaged the students thoroughly. Students wante

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? The kit has helped us to plan our history curriculum as a school rather than just as a class. We are able to use the kit to plan effectively for all year groups using age appropriate stories and resources provided. We were able to adapt some of the teachi

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 stories align with the new ANZH curriculum so we found the stories incredibly helpful with jump starting our dive into the new curriculum. It gave us confidence with teaching and finding new resources for our staff and students. We could use the local

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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“Awesome kit! Students loved exploring tangible piece of NZ history and finding out more through inquiry tasks. Would 100% recommend using in conjunction with the new Aotearoa New Zealand History curriculum too.”

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Posted 3 years ago

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? As an inquiry based school, it is vital that the students can connect with their inquiries from a personal point of view. By making connects with their community and its' history they have greater buy in.

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 believe the Kit will be a source of inspiration and can help provide background knowledge for myself and to help guide students' inquiries.

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? All stories that have the personal background and connection to the people are always valuable.

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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“Since first opening the kit, I have been amazed at the depth of the contents and the endless ways the images and artifacts can be used. Working with new migrant students and helping them to understand New Zealand's past and culturally diverse background is essential to help them assimilate into New Zealand society.”

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Posted 3 years ago