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? I am more confident in presenting the information to the tamariki and I have also learnt how I can connect students prior knowledge and experiences into my teaching better.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Because I am not originally from where I am currently living, there is a lot I want to learn now about PN. I was able to learn more hgistroy about my kura, but I would love to talk to people in the community and use my local resources to find more about this place.

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? massive impact - made it more real and believable.

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

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“We used this school kit this term and it was incredible to linkt he knowledge about pepeha/mihimihi that we had learnt at the beginning of this year. The students found the stories very interesting and it was great to learn about some of my students history and their connections to some of the places and their stories they have. The students loved looking at the old items that were included in the kit and we did a session on how things have changed and what the future might look like in another 50 years. This was such a great kit to get the tamariki interested in our whenua and the tangata. Ngā mihi nui School Kit for creating such a thoughtful and exciting kit!”

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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 access to resources and stories that support the new Aotearoa NZ Histories curriculum which has especially helped with local stories.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? This kit has awesome local stories which we have started to explore, akonga are interested to go and see some of these places.

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 was important to hear the stories of tangata whenua as their knowledge has been past down, we didn't need to go and explore the Maori perspective as it wads already intertwined with the stories.

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

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“This kit is full of information and amazing stories! At times my class (Y4-8) found it overwhelming as there is a lot to unpack and understand. Those who had a real interest loved being able to explore the newspaper articles independently while the others worked with me. I think this kit is best suited for year 6-8 students and used over a few terms.”

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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? Yes

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? It has highlighted things we haven't thought about before.

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 knew they were all from different backgrounds

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

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“My class and I have loved exploring this resource pack. It has been great exploring the New Zealand Histories.”

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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 has been great to help develop my understanding of history from different parts of Aotearoa

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We have been busy investigating our local history, but I love the idea of starting with photos of now and unpacking the ideas.

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 is great to know we are able to teach what has been approved and is the right lens on an event

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

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“I really love this resource, we did not unpack it as much as I would like to, as I found out about this great resource at a course, after we had conducted our own local ANZH inquiry. However going forward this will be a brilliant resource to use again and go into greater depth.”

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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? Yes, a huge confidence builder.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes, as this has made me find other stories from our local area using art murals as the basis for our stories.

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? Fantastic opportunity for iwi to share their stories in a project that speaks into the lives of our akonga.

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

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“Thank you for this mahi. As a teacher, I have found this resource very useful for bringing places and times in our Aotearoa History to the front of my mind. The students have enjoyed researching and discovering stories in our local area and wider. We have enjoyed using the Claim story when researching about pounamu trading and are looking forward to using Chinkon for Anzac Day.”

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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. I loved the easy reference wheel and coded overarching learning objectives to refer to for each level of activity. It's surprising how much reflection I made on my own education, feeling embarrassed for the lack of prior knowledge I had about some of the material. For me having background links provided for me to further my own understanding was v helpful.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes I think the students will be far more engaged if it's something immediately relevant to them in their local rohe, which is why I started with 'observatiion' first. We discovered the pepeha for our area had a lot more to it.

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? To mihi to the local mana whenua and respect their contribution and wishes for how to bring the mātauranga to the students.

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

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“The year 6,7,8, class that I come in to do release time engaged with about 4 postcard topics this term. While a small group of engaged students would have been ok to run with the website as is, I had to adapt the teaching of the material by using group collaborative learning and whole class led by me. Generally the class are able readers but I tailored each task by selecting the videos to watch, adding in an important relevant song that represented the theme and group writing and practice questiining skills to gain deeper thinking. The kit is full of relevant research and links all ready prepared, that would otherwise be very time consuming for students to navigate themselves. I thought having the skills and how to videos for research was helpful for students taking on their own Inquiry.”

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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 can tell that the many resources, photos and postcards are going to be very beneficial to hooking my learners.

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 authentic.

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

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“The trinkets and postcards and all the colourful hands-on resources really set this kit up for success. I have not completed the kit with my class yet as it fits the best for us in 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? It took a while to get my head around this kit but having this resource makes me more confident when thinking about using this again!

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? It showed me that there was so much unknown still out there for me to discover. This is something I want to use not only as a whole class inquiry but I think this would be great to use as independent reading tasks too.

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 takes it back to the people and gives purpose to the stories.

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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“This was full of information that we could not get through and it made me realise how little I knew of local stories and how important this kit is!”

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Posted 1 year ago