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? By focusing on the specific area we live in. Hawkes Bay! By visiting historical sites, inviting whanau in to the school to share their treasures and atories. Watching videos about the history of our area.

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? Allowed me a public licence to explore the historical events in my families history and histories of other families in my class. Gave me confidence to delve into Aotearoa's history.

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? High engagement from students with Maori decent, especially with stories from Hawkes Bay where we live. I have iwi from the marae at Paki Paki and many families who worked at the works in Hastings which closed in the 80's.

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

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“Oh my goodness my students are loving this unit. Full engagement, buy in and participation. Many students have similar stories to share. We have done some compare and contrast work. The resource is so engaging because the contents are real. Excellent hands on, stimulating photographs. Every student in my room could relate to some of the stories. I had parents and grandparents wanting to share their stories that were similar. WW1, Gold Mining, Nuclear Testing in the Pacific. So many can remember July 15th 1985. Many students had relatives that came to NZ on sailing ships in the 1800's. The kids are really enjoying this. Loved the pictures and photographs. So detailed, relevant, interesting and authentic. They stimulated such enthusiastic discussion and questioning. I'm sure I was in the Auckland Santa Parade photograph. Every family has a history, starts somewhere? What a fantastic resource to be able to use. Thank you.”

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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? Can use as a scaffold

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, Papers Past, RNZ

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

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? Kids like personal stories so they were engaging

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“Liked using the different physical items when we cant take kids places”

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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 have a fascinating local area involving Ngaati Toa and Governor Grey. We already have actual descendants of Te Rauparaha tell his story and we physically visit the special places. Using the research databases to find actual historical documents will ma

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 consider myself reasonably confident in my historical knowledge, but letting tamariki research like 'real historians' means that the learning is more powerful.

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 was important to know that local iwi had input into the story. They weren't our local iwi, with whom we already work, but part of the story ended at Parliament, where local iwi's rights and mana were poorly treated during the March occupation this

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“What a fabulous resource! The facsimile documents and other items were a very high standard and led to lots of interesting conversations in class and also back home with whanau. Tamariki are now more aware of important events that have shaped Aotearoa and are also learning about the valuable and accessible historical information available for research. Tamariki are also learning to think about whose point of view is being shown and how that might differ from someone else's perspective, which is so important when facing the barrage of information (and misinformation!) that is available to them now digitally. I will be using this kit a lot.”

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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? Yes…. Went to the local museum

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? So much support material + plus interesting 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? Took a bit to get students curious…. Wanting to find out more

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“Great variety of images”

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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 mentioned above, we hope to link into the concept of this story within our own community, which is developing townhouses rapidly. It is how we will link the past to the present, and history elsewhere to current events here.

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? Knowing that we have a reliable, detailed resource that explores more than the 'big stories' is awesome. We will continue to link this resource into future units, so I hope that the websites will continue to exist.

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? It was awesome having the confidence in delivering stories that reflected Māori history from a Māori perspective. We've talked lots about Eurocentric history and resources, so this was very welcome.

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“This is an immense Kit! There are so many stories, and so much information. We have focused on Construct this term, and are still digging deeply into it. We hope to then explore other stories that link in then finish off by examining the rapid development in our own community.”

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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 has help us with understanding the different ways in which we can explore local histories - big stories and small stories.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? This kit was useful to know that there are so many different, engaging ways of delivering the ANZHC.

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? It was great to know that the stories were developed with collaborations with iwi.

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“Great Kit, fill of engaging resources”

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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? This kit has given a great starting point and our school brought in an expert for us to continue our learning around our local histories.

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, RNZ

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Its added more to my kete for ANZH and looking for different ways in which to incorporate it into everything we do

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? It gave me a great starting point and then the children were bringing their own stories they had heard from their grandparents.

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“The children absolutely loved it! It opened so many doors. It took a wee while to get the ball rolling, but once they got onto what they needed to do it was great. I also discovered that there are many children in my class that love learning about ANZH and have a real strength in this area.”

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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? Yes we can use this model to explore our local area.

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? It was really good having the website to read all of the background information and I could weave what was in the kit to other aspects of our learning. I'm looking forward to continue using this to further develop my understanding of the Aotearoa Historie

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? It did give us confidence as we could read all the information which then provided us with some prior knowledge.

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“The kids really enjoyed using the website to dig deeper alongside the postcards and little treasures. It was great to learn some NZ history and find out about events that had happened in our country. This is a resource that we can continue to use next year and weave through our understanding of the NZ Histories Curriculum.”

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Posted 3 years ago