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? A lot!

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? 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? That's big for me! It's important that we get these things right!

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Wow! What a fab kit this is! We are a kura based in Naenae, Lower Hutt, so the section about Naenae was really excellent for our tamariki. We loved looking through all the treasures. There is so much information in this kit, that we will be continuing to use it for a long time! Thank you, School 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 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 made me think deeper into my planning around ANZH.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Some of the stories from my local area, I had never heard about so it is getting me to look deeper into my 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? Made us proud to be New Zealanders and especially hearing these stories from iwi/ whanau/ community made it that much more special!

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

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“I think this is a great resource. It was great for my year 5 & 6 students to use. It pushed them to inquire deeper and taught them new research skills. Each story was informative and interesting for the students.”

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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? I am more confident in delivering the NZ Histories curriculum

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We have a specific kura approach to our local area so this is N/A

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 confident knowing that what I am teaching was resourced and founded indigenously. It assured me that I was doing right by my learners, especially those that whakapapa Māori

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“Although we are just beginning to unpack our kit, it is amazing so far. All of the resources are beautiful and well thought out. My tamariki loved using the website and postcards as well as dissecting the images provided in the kit.”

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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? Not at all.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Already doing 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? I would have expected nothing less

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“I found the resources phenomenal. I didn't think the learning was that great but with the resourcing, it was easy to make plans for something different. 5 out of 5 for the reources”

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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? Next term we may know.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Next term we may know.

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? Our staff could see the different iwi resources that would be helpful if we were doing that kaupapa.

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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“As a kaiako, I did not use the kit myself but did show it to all kura staff. We all perused the contents and really liked what we saw. We were on another kaupapa so the kit was not used at all. I failed to contact you to let you know sooner but have only reached out once I saw the email to respond. Our kura are still interested in the resources and I will let you know once we have planned for next term. Thank you for the ideas.”

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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? A little.

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? Love it.

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 was a great resource to model with the whole class 1st, then send students off to investigate their own curiosities. The kids loved the artefacts.”

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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 gave me a really great place to start and helped to direct our learning. Having the teacher resource and the website was great.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We would love to create a model of our local area in a similar manner. This could be a future project - making postcards and collecting some artefacts from the local area would be such a great motivator and really creates mystery and excitement for the learners to keep them engaged and motivated to learn more

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 gave me the confidence to know I wasn’t getting it wrong or offending anybody when telling the stories and delivering the content.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This ANZH kit has been an amazing tool to support our teaching and learning and provided excitement and a place to begin. The kit kept akonga engagement high and provided motivation to investigate where the postcard could be from. Oral language and discussions were thoughtful and on topic.”

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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's increased my interest and knowledge, which leads to increased confidence.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Maybe a little bit. I'm not sure I could use this model for 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? Excellent

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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“As an adult on this site, I felt it was excellent. So engaging and interesting. I loved seeing each part of NZ history from different perspectives and seeing how things changed over time. Top notch. Some of my year 6s loved it but others needed quite a bit of support with the reading and unpacking. I loved the extra physical momentoes. This made it more engaging for the students. We'll done on an amazing resource.”

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Posted 1 year ago