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 is making it very easy to deliver interesting curriculum content. A great way to learn how to work with interesting stories from New Zealand's history.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes! This kit has motivated me and helped shape my conversations with colleagues. It has given me a good structure to follow for future topics.

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. It makes it even more meaningful.

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

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“Having undertaken professional development this year about the new Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum I was excited to dive into this kit and explore the stories and resources. Though we didn't get as far into the kit as I had hoped due to time constraints, (We were busy with a school-wide inquiry into our school's history ahead of our 65th celebrations) we made a good start and are in a great place to leap back into it in Term 4. The students were really engaged with the location postcards, the physical historical items and the stories provided on the website. This was a well-resourced kit and it will be very useful for future use by other teachers at my school once I am finished with it.”

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Posted 1 year 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? Great having this resource to help guide and encourage the teaching of NZ histories.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Definitely a model that could be used

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? We need to explore more in the kit to answer this question

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“We had the best of intentions on beginning our kit at the start of Term 3, however, due to interruptions (sports and other events) this lead us to only having the time to begin working through the kit 3 weeks before the end of the Term. As a whole class we started looking through "Tikkun Olam". Students have enjoyed working through the stories and learning more about this event in NZ Histories. We hope to continue working through more in the kit during Term 4.”

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Posted 1 year 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? Having all the information easier to find in one place helped make sure I was teaching the right thing and be factually correct

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? It has inspired for me to do my own research using the kit to fill in the gaps in my own NZ history knowledge. I look forward to using this kit each year.

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? Reassuring that what I am passing on knowledge to my students who are predominantly from local iwi and has not been white washed like so much of our history before

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“What impressed me with the kit was the possibilities and lessons I could plan around each card and artifact. Being new to Lower Hutt it was exciting to discover alongside my students our local history. I found the Something Happened Here cards helpful they connected to a website that allowed my students to delve into long classroom conversations. The hardest part was knowing where to start.”

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Posted 1 year 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? Having a range of stories to draw from

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I did know a lot of the history of the local area, or lots of aspects of the stories from our local area or nearby

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

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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 good to see that. My students enjoyed that our school was in one of the stories. - Lovelock Oak at Timaru Boys' High School

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

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“My class enjoyed some of the stories but found it hard to navigate the dashboard on occasion as they are Y10 and they were working individually on different stories each. They were recording their learning in a way that was new to them also (on google sites) but having the images available digitally helped and the links. Some stories were more difficult than others with a lot of audio clips which were harder to listen to in a busy classroom. Some stories were surprising to the students and they mostly enjoyed the variety of different tasks they came across. Overall I did like using the kit but now having used it, would probably try different approaches to using it in class next time.”

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Posted 1 year 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? Provided great ideas on how to discuss and start lessons.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Good starters to implement our localised curriculum. Teachers got ideas on how to share local purakau using old school photos and articles

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? Teachers are using learning stories to engage with whanau. Whanau encouraged to share photos and stories

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Many fun creative ways to engage students in exploring history.”

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Posted 1 year 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 have learnt so many valuable stories, just having a resource that allows a huge range of views has been wonderful.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We have not used this aspect of it but I hope to develop into that next year.

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? Gave me a lot of confidence in the reliability of what I was teaching

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

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“There is so much in this pack that can be used in so many different ways. It has been great to be able to dip in occasionally and use the resources to support the teaching and learning already happening in my class. I have been able to adapt the resources for both Year 7 and Year 10 classes, using the same resource in different ways depending on the class.”

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Posted 1 year 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 really has flipped the classroom in that students take control of their learning. It changed my ideas about how stories can be told and made it a lot more practical and relevant to the children.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes! I am going to use this model in our local curriculum for histories. The children particularly loved the location aspect of the cards and the pepeha introduction was inspired.

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? Some of the places and stories told from the perspective of iwi were invaluable. They would have previously been inaccessible.

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

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“This was an invaluable resource. The intricate resources and photographs were amazing. So much effort has been put into collecting and collating artefacts for children to touch and delve into. Quite simply it is something that we as teachers cannot provide. It really makes history come alive. There were a variety of entry points into the kit and it was amazing to see how other teachers used it in the tips on the secret teacher pages in the app.”

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Posted 1 year 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? This kit has given me wings! I feel like I can now confidently deliver great content to my students and I am far from having explored it all.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The kit has motivated me to explore the history of my local area by showing me how easily accessible archives are online and how to start an investigation using photos and other artefacts. I found a box of silverplated spoons that were made for the centenary celebration of our kura in the 1980's and have added them to the artefacts kit bag with the intention of using them as starting point for our investigation in the history of our kura.

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 gives the stories legitimacy. I feel confident teaching them knowing that they have been approved by iwi/whānau.

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

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“I absolutely love this kit! I can't believe the quality of it and how much is in it. The students' and teachers websites are fantastic. The activities are well thought out, rich, easy to follow, with all links readily accessible. Thank you for putting this amazing teaching resource together!”

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Posted 1 year ago