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? 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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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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 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 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 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 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 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? Yes

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? Very important. They gave it validity

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 presented a very unique way to approach the History curriculum. i loved the way it really got the students to think for themselves and gave them access to new 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? I feel more confident within the limited knowledge I have. It has given me ideas and a pathway to use.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I think I could incorporate this model locally. It would be awesome to have local stories that are more relevant to the students.

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 felt more 'normal' like there was a range on input and perspectives.

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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“Students enjoyed the website although for many of my students, it was aimed too high - even the lower level activities. This is something that I personally will have to work on. Having the photos was amazing - they started lots of discussion not only at school but at home as well. I am aiming to continue using the kit next term as students want to learn more,.”

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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 has helped give me knowledge and resources that I can use, and helped me see how I can explore the UKD aspects

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We have many stories in our area that we continually explore anyway - the POW camp and Remutaka Rail Trail etc

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 particular impact

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Thanks for another great kit. My students enjoyed exploring the content and the mixture of both online and physical resources.”

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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 made me passionate about the stories and this spread to my students.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Definitely, last term we looked at our local histories while writing a team production, we found the stories were what reasonated with our audience.

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, you felt that everyone's stories were told.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Bravo to the creators of this kit! It was easy to use, ignited discussion, intrigue and passion among my learners. The concept of using stories and pepeha ensured students could relate to their own experiences. It was so wonderful to teach our history about our places, our experiences, using our stories. Could not recommend enough!”

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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's given me more confidence because it gives ideas of what to teach. Thank you.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Our local area doesn't really feature in this kit but it's still got very interesting things to research about.

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's good to know that it's ok to teach this content - permission granted etc.

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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“I really like the resources in the kit and they are very helpful, thank you very much. I've been finding it very difficult to navigate around your website to find out how to use the kit. I think the kit is probably more suited to year 5 and up. It's a bit over the heads of my year 4 students.”

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Posted 2 years ago