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 has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It was a different hands-on approach

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? It gave some structure to our visits

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 collaborate and share lots with local iwi and whānau so it was in line with the kaupapa and kawa of our kura.

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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“My students really enjoyed wondering about what they could see in the postcards. One 11 year said it's like being detectives. We spent some time at our local museum too and made connections to pictures, artifacts and events.”

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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 liked the resources that I previously found hard to access. Having things in one place made it easy to use.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We already explore a lot of our local histories but the online exploring aspect really hooked some kids as it could be independent investigation.

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 meant the students had more trust in the information because there were a range of trusted sources used.

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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“An awesome kit full of amazing resources that are engaging and enhance the learning opportunities we can give.”

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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? My biggest fear was that I wouldn't have enough resources to teach my students. Now I can teach local history confidently and expand my knowledge of Aoteroa's history.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The kids led the learning in the end and were telling other students what they found out. This resource works great.

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 now know a lot more about the stories in my local area. Students are asking questions of what happened and why things happened which is great.

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 pack gives information for different areas around NZ. We were trying to source information about our local area and this was perfect. We also have students who come from a range of Iwi around NZ and they were able to learn the history of where they were from. It would be great if more resources were added as more become available to build on this amazing resource.”

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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 has given me access to some of the purakau and history I did not know before

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? These tools are already leading to further learning from our Tainui region

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? They need to be to teach them properly. Māori history is oral and should be told, without telling they cannot be written. If they were not created in collaboration with iwi I would be using them

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, National Library

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“These teaching tools are incredible for teaching bites of ANZH in a way that is accessible for our tamariki. The ideas and concepts unpacked are big, and the tamariki really get it, and get into the ako journey. They align beautifully with my use of dramatic inquiry to teach ANZH and support this pedagogy beautifully. I can dip in and out of this kit at any 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? I feel a lot more confident and far more knowledgable after using this kit.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Haven't looked into this idea yet.....

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 felt that this enhanced their credibility and felt more assured that what I was imparting to my students was accurate..

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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“An excellent resource to use. My year 7 class found the stories really interesting and learnt many new things about Aotearoa. Highly reccommend.”

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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? A little more confident. I'd like a PD crash course in person on how to best use this.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? YES, ABSOLUTLEY.

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 as good as it could have been.

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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“Fantastic resources. I LOVE the artefacts included in the pack. I found it pitched a bit to high for yr 4's and would love some PD on how to use these amazing resources better!”

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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 given me newfound desire to dig deeper and beyond the surface of what we think we already know.

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? We are always finding ways to engage our community and whānau. It was reassuring to be aware of the hands and minds that encompassed this resource.

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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“There was a lot to cover alongside a whole school inquiry. However, the resources and information provided allowed us to work this in collaboratively. We, alongside ākonga have discovered so much throughout this topic and continue to do so, coming up to the last week of term. A user friendly resource that we were able to adapt to suit our ākongfa needs.”

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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 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? We still recognise that we need to increase our own subject knowledge to be able to confidently teach this subject to our students.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? It's really interesting to hear individual stories and about the lived experience of our communities. We have looked into some more stories of the same cultures to help us get a broader sense of the experience, so our tamariki learn that these were not just one families 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? This was useful as there are many stories out there in the community and so knowing they have been specifically chosen by people in those communities made us feel confident that the perspectives and viewpoints were reliable.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“We found some really interesting stories and resources within this kit and used some of them to help us when structuring our lessons. While we didn't follow a story all the way through, we were able to use elements of it to help us delve into different communities and their reasons for migrating to Aotearoa. There is so much content in the kit that it really did feel overwhelming initially, and we were lucky that we could have a meeting to help us understand it better. Following that, it did feel more manageable and if we hadn't had that, I'm not sure how comfortable we would have been with using the kit. Our students were actively engaged in the activities we did with them, and they really enjoyed especially being able to see the way that Courtney Place used to look. There were some aspects that we found further resources for and were more appropriate for the learning needs of our class, so we did stray away from following all of the website tasks and sources. Overall, this was really helpful for us to begin creating a structure for part of the new curriculum.”

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Posted 1 year ago