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How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The way the stories and resources are curated on the SHH webpages, as well as the kinds of questions asked, and Social Studies skills being unpacked, can be used as a pattern, to develop a similar differentiated inquiry based around our local area. We cou

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? 1. The wide variety of stories/events presented in SHH provides a breadth of readily accessible material that presents NZ History in a compelling, relevant way. 2. Having primary and secondary sources already curated for us, is enormously helpful and sup

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? The community engagement in the development of the stories brings a richness and diversity of perspective. Community engagement also anchors the stories/events to their locations, underlining the significant connection between people and place.

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“The SHH School Kit presents rich, easily accessible resources to facilitate the teaching of New Zealand history. Starting each inquiry with its pepeha, effectively connected place to stories and events, piqued student curiosity and immediately drew my students into the investigation. The design of this resource provides a great deal of flexibility. There is a lot of direction and structure for students who need this, while those with well developed inquiry skills very quickly begin to access sources,"go down the rabbit hole"and start to excitedly share what they have discovered. This design fosters very natural sharing of learning between peers, collaboration in research and discussion around findings. One of the strengths of this School Kit is its flexibility of use. It works equally well for whole class learning, small group inquiry and individual inquiry. This allows students to engage with the learning with varying levels of support, tailored to their needs. I love the way that the location based inquiries can be used together as a whole unit focus, but also picked out individually and added to existing units of work, to enrich and deepen that learning. For Example: the stories connected to the women's suffrage movement align with our government unit (as do many other stories); stories connected to the holocaust compliment a WW2 based novel study that we do; multiple stories connect to our unit on immigration . . . Different stories align to every topic focus that we cover and I envisage this Kit becoming well embedded in units of work, throughout both years of our two-year cycle. The HOW TO . . . resources linked to the Teacher Support Materials are particularly helpful - these are excellent for helping students (and teachers) access material on websites that curate primary sources. The Reading Historical Images (the School Kit Model) is an excellent resource to scaffold the skill of interpreting images. I found the Coded Curriculum Document and Content Navigator to be excellent, simple tools for helping align the inquiries with specific Progress Outcomes. This provides helpful modelling of how the NZHs Progress Outcomes can be unpacked in learning contexts. This School Kit is one of the best curriculum learning resources I have seen and I am excited about using it to connect students to the stories, events, perspectives and issues of our history over the coming years. It is a very sophisticated design.”

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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? One of the stories in the kit was about our local area so we focused on that.

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I think mostly using the resources that were provided. Seeing as one of the stories was hit our local area we mostly used that. Heaps to do fir each story so even just that one gave us plenty.

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? Real stories from real people. One was specific to our area and we focused on that.

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“This kit was absolutely fantastic for my capable year 7&s. My less casinos students needed quite a lot of support but still got a lot out of it. We found it was too challenging gif our year 5/6 students (even though it said tears 4-8). I will definitely use it again for my intermediate students.”

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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 will work with local iwi (are developing some resources)

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? We will definitely use these resources again in the future as we continue our journey with 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? Actual stories are always more meaningful for student engagement.

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“Really useful resources to start exploring this curriculum. Excellent ties into the document and wonderful primary resources for students.”

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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 need to unpack out school Cultural Narrative in a much more detailed way and this kit will help us apply the skills we have learned to the task or finding out what historically happened in our space.

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? This helped me see how the NZ Aotearoa History Curriculum would like in the classroom and made it seem much more approachable. Thank-you for your amazing resource.

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 unpack the stories of our whanau and area. Unpacking our own stories made this real for us, not just finding out about wider NZ history.

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“The resources were great and the planning ideas / support made this an easy kit to use in the classroom.”

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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 were already incredibly motivated by this in our group of classes

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

How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I am very confident and ready to deliver the NZ History Curriculum.

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? this was great

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“We found this kit was a bit beyond our group of Year 5 students and with sickness within our team of teachers we could not dedicate time to this to help students gain more of an understanding. The kit itself was amazing and the detail was awesome. We put up a wall display as we had two kits for our 3 classes and did not realise 2 teachers had ordered 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? We are already doing this in our Te Reo lessons but this can help make things more effective and real.

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? Just having specific resources to use always helps make things easier!

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? Just a better connection with people.

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“Fantastic informative resources as always!”

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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 photos were fabulous. They provided lots of areas for discussion.

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? I am more aware of different ways to engage the students and present information. Weaving more events/ideas together to provide richer learning opportunities.

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? Students were very interested in how people were a part of events and why they were important.

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“This is fabulous kit. the photos provided many areas for discussion. Students were engaged with the events and were eager to find out how their families remembered or were involved in the events.”

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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? Next year we will have a local focus (did this in 2021) but will use this model from the school kit.

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? This kit has really helped me to understand what the Aotearoa History Curriculum is based on and the kit was a fantastic example and resource to use as a way of first implementing it.

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? Knowing the stories had come from iwi and community made it so much more relevant and was great to know the source was reliable.

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“The students in my class had not really had much history teaching apart from a small amount of local area history. They were so engaged and loved using the resources, websites and artifacts as part of the lessons.”

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Posted 3 years ago