Aotearoa NZ Histories 23 Reviews

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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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? This kit has given me lots of ideas of how and what can be incorporated into teaching the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Has made me think a lot more about the early settlers and how they lived - businesses set, transporting things etc. I could use this model to support this learning.

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? It made me feel more comfortable about the stories I was telling or considering whose voice might be missing. Very informative.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Something Happened Here was easy to follow, had excellent resources to support the learning, and was super engaging.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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 has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I learned so many new things as a teacher. Individual stories from Kiwis all over NZ. So unbelievably interesting! I will be using this kit next year.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I am in Auckland and have learnt more about the history of suburbs here. Along with other places in NZ I have been to.

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? not much

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Kareao, RNZ, Digital NZ, Kā Huru Manu, Cenotaph, Papers Past, NZ On Screen, Ngā Taonga, National Library

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“- So easy to use - Packed with so much content - Kids loved it - using the website and tactile resources - So many different ways use the unit”

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Posted 2 years ago

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 has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Helping to slowly build up my teaching toolkit.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes could use this but also looking at other models.

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Good!

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

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“The students loved it. It's great to have tangible resources to get kids engaged and off their devices. Great prompts for thinking about history.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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 has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? Immensely! There was so much information that even I didn’t know about Nz

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We definitely delved into researching things we wouldn’t have without 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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? Really good to know that it was well researched and that the information we were giving was accurate and unbiased

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This was a great resource and there was so much great discussion that our tamariki had. It was confusing a points and quite overwhelming at the start. But we managed to make it our own.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? As noted before, I expect it to have an increasing impact as students become increasingly ready for this content.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I intend to use this as a model.

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? That's really encouraging, as it is not always easy to know who to approach and how to go about it.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This kit will be amazing for us in the coming years. However, our kids were not quite ready for it yet. For a school that is just learning how to teach NZ history beyond the very surface level, this was too much for us at this stage. For a majority of students who are just learning what Māori and Pakeha actually mean, beginning to have some geographical awareness outside of their own suburbs, and getting a sense of very basic timelines, this was a stretch. The stories were a little out of reach. But as I said, as we build and integrate Aotearoa histories into our curriculum, students will come through more and more ready for these deeper, richer stories.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? This has helped my confidence in delivering the new histories curriculum and started great sharing and learning between teachers within my school

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? In term four my class are looking into the history of the Waihi gold mine after one of the post cards was on gold mining and some of my students new very little about our own towns gold mine

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? I feel tThe students and I took the time to reflect on that in our very first lesson. It was wonderful to hear how they understood and appreciated the collaboration between all.

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

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“This kit comes with an amazing amount of information and resources. This is the first time I have recived a kit and I was very empressed. My class is about half way through and are looking forward to contununing out learning into term four. As a first year teacher I found it very easy to use and the students loved the postcards and extra resources that matched up with the cards and clips.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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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How has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? I have gained confidence in delivering history beyond the big topics of Te Tiriti, Parihaka, ANZAC Day etc.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? It has made me realise that even 'small' places have rich, complex history that we should be exploring.

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? N/A

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“My class and I really enjoyed using this kit to explore what has happened in Aotearoa's past and how that has shaped the society we are in today. We loved looking at the artefacts and documents and making predictions about what these things were. This really helped to hook my class in to the topic. I loved how the kit helped tell stories of many different groups of people. My kids were so excited to see their culture and languages represented in the kit. They did find the website hard to navigate at times.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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 has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It's been a great starting point.

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

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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What was the impact of knowing the stories in this kit were developed in collaboration with their iwi/whānau/community? It has made them more aware of the history around them that they may otherwise have taken no notice of.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This has been an amazing resource that I have just introduced to my class, so there is lots more exploring to be done. One particular aspect of this kit that has been beneficial is how to analyse a historical photo. We have been able to use this in other curriculum areas when looking at photos and the quality of writing has improved based on this tool.”

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Posted 2 years ago