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? A great step to teaching Aotearoa histories in our classrooms.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? This kit unpacked some local histories for us and generated thinking around other key history in our zone. By linking this to the library access shared means we could use the same structure to find out more local information.

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? Knowing these stories included iwi showed their mana and created more relatable history for the students.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“My class of years 7 & 8 loved this box. They especially enjoyed the clips from the past. I can't wait to explore more of this box next term as there are so many goodies inside.”

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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? Anytime you have resources it builds confidence.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Supporting us look at our local area and development of our School expectations

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? No impact

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This allowed our teaching hub to have solid and reliable resources to guide our unit”

Helpful Report

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? Improved interaction with AH

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

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? Made it relevant

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Such a great resource and a fun way of learning for ākonga”

Helpful Report

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? Great as - feeling confident after that kit.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I have been able to make connections to my local curriculum already and I am excited to make more connections and incorporate into my everyday school programme.

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? Awesome for tamariki as it gives them a sense of identity and they can relate to the stories via their iwi and whanau.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“A great kit with awesome insight for students. Interactive and amazing resources too.”

Helpful Report

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? Definitely a good starting point. There was a lot in there that I didn't know so it was nice to have a little bit of a lot of different things.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I found some of the questions where a bit confusing and not very clear but the model itself was great. I just told my students they could chose what level reading/questions they wanted to do.

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? The students were really engaged because they were able to recognise people and places

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 high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This box had everything I needed to hook the students in and start them on their discovery of New Zealand's history. It took me a little while to get my own head around it and understand where to go and what to do but once I had that clear in my own head, it made it very easy for me to facilitate the students. We did some journeys together so we all knew exactly how it worked and then students chose their own paths as they moved through the cards. This was the base of my whole term's planning and it was deep and rich. I have no doubt this kit will come out again year after year.”

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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? It gives a wide-ranging set of resources and stories, from different parts of New Zealand, that I didn't know about.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I definitely want to find out more about the Manawatu area. My students are year 3-4, so the model used would have to be very teacher guided.

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 is very important - getting the stories told correctly is key.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“We haven't yet had a chance to unpack the stories with our students, but we enjoyed reading through the stories at a team meeting. We were specifically looking for stories from Palmerston North, as we wanted to begin with local history.”

Helpful Report

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? Greatly.

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

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? This was great to know because I am a bilingual class this was exactly the type of resource required for teaching and learning.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Great resource particularly if you want your student to learn/know about the events, businesses and other kaupapa that shaped New Zealand. I love the fact that Pepeha is a clue used to support students with their research and that there are resources for both students and teachers to use. Unfortunately, I don't think that we did this resource the justice it deserves as I received the resource midway through term 3. Although, I had the students at least use the cards provided to research some of the cards. Even I learn things I never knew happened.”

Helpful Report

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? Increased my confidence. Helped me to see how we can use local stories and local ideas, and helped me to see how we can help our children to do this, we don't have to have all the answers ahead of time.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Definitely could use this model. I'm thinking of creating some similar stories on a much smaller and simpler scale that we could use with younger learners.

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? Helped my confidence - I felt I could be more certain about the content and what was being presented.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“I used this kit as part of our literacy programme. I went through the postcards before using them with my class and selected stories relating to our inquiry focus for the year - food. Originally I thought I would use 6 postcards, but we only got through three stories in reality. I have Year 4 - 6 learners, working in Level 3 of the curriculum. The children were in mixed ability groups, and chose the postcard that they wanted to work on. From a literacy perspective, the postcards supported multi-modal 'reading' and 'writing'. The children took notes as they worked, and wrote a report about their learning at the end. The postcards also supported our inquiry work, and put a personal story / link to some of the ideas we had already talked about in class. As an example - the Mauka story provided evidence for the idea that different foods came to Aotearoa with immigrant families. The children hadn't really understood this idea until they worked on the Mauka story. Perhaps most importantly - my children LOVED this kit. They asked if they could continue working at break times, or take the work home to complete. They said they felt like 'detectives', and they loved the idea that they were discovering this information for themselves - they felt like they were the first people to find this information out! They're very keen to continue learning in this way. They made links across the different types of information, and made links with what they already knew from previous learning. This kit is BRILLIANT, and everyone should try it!”

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Posted 2 years ago