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? Demonstrated an inquiry approach and allowed me to be open to learning alongside my students - no pressure to know everything.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? This was a very natural next step - students were asking questions and wondering about our local history.

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 had no hesitation using the resource because of this. If it had not, I would not have used it at all.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This was an excellent tool to demonstrate how to engage students in the new histories curriculum. Super engaging for students and teachers. Tamariki were buzzing with excitement.”

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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? Having the resources and info to follow has made me confident

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? -

Which of the following archives were you aware of and using with your students prior to kit? Kareao, Kā Huru Manu, Cenotaph, Papers Past, Ngā Taonga

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“The resources were fantastic and engaging for the students. We were able to have really good discussions using the post cards.”

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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? We teach mainly local history so it helped extend

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Our kura has a very strong knowledge of the history of our local area, but this kit let us explore other areas.

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? As it is their history so knowing it was their perspective was very important to me.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Like all School Kits this one was just as amazing. This was done in a Rumaki senior classroom so the language had to be adapted but the resources in the box were useful because the students could use their own language reading the photos.”

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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? it has maintained it.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? This would be a nice model to follow, when creating future units of work.

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? Impact? Do you mean were the stories Better? -Yes.

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

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“A wide range of learning contexts to select from. A really thorough resource. Unfortunately so many of the clips/videos etc. linked to the something happened here were unaccessible to the students online due to netsafe/internet restrictions. In many/most schools, YouTube clips etc. are not able to be viewed by students. Teachers use a number of work-arounds (eg purify, tu.be etc) so that students can access appropriate content safely. PLEASE in the the future, consider/explore ways of embedding clips to YOUR site, so that students can fully access the information.”

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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? The availability of information in one place is really helpful to deliver this curriculum, I like that combination of visuals such as images and videos to support the reading tasks. Also useful is the fact that this information is well sourced and reliable as you never know how reliable or authentic material is when using the internet as a source.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes, we are doing this as part of our school ANZH unit.

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? Having the different perspectives is a really great way for students to understand how events and places mean different things or are perceived differently depending on who you are.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“A well-designed resource that is engaging with heaps of information for the students to explore. There is a pretty good balance between material that requires reading with visuals such as images and videos. There is however a great deal of reading required which some of my students found a little challenging and impacted their engagement at times. However, overall this is an excellent resource that makes teaching this topic straightforward, very helpful to have all the required information in one place”

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Posted 1 year ago

Did you Encounter Stories You Didn't Know Before? no

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 given us a new range of resources to include in our teaching

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? That is a very important aspect for us as this is how we choose to develop our own local curriculum materials

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“The resources are very visual and tactile which is great for our tamariki to get a sense of history being about real people.”

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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? Really good kit - thanks

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes 100%

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 these stories are true and important

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 is a kit full of amazing images and information. It does need quite a lot of unpacking for Year 4 students and needs to be predominantly led by the classroom teacher. Being in the Bay of Plenty, my children enjoyed learning about their local area the most. It would be amazing to have kits for different regions of the country. There were lots of amazing questions asked and learning done.”

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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? It is a great beginning point and has extended my confidence and knowledge in teaching this area.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes I could use this model and it has motivated me and the tamariki to learn more about our area.

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 to know!

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“As an intermediate kaiako, I really enjoyed teaching with this resource pack. I was very excited to introduce this to my tamariki and they were just as excited to begin their journey. I LOVED the pepeha on each card. We, as a school, spent most of term 1 learning about our own pepeha. The hands on objects were very exciting for the tamariki and they were only able to use them once they got to that step which was neat. The learning that took place was great! They were able to complete it at their own tie using the different levels. I am looking forward to using this pack again!”

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Posted 1 year ago