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? No impact

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We have already explored a lot of our local area and have had PD from local historians and local iwi so this kit has not made any difference to my motivation.

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 makes it more real.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“I was warned not to use the kit by the year 5-6 teacher who had tried it previously. She said the topics were too advanced for her year 5s and would not be suitable for my year 3/4 class. The resources in the box looked interesting but we are also a class who don't have many devices that work well so having to do everything online sounded really tricky.”

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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? The visual aids were a great resource for a start to this topic.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The historical information was eeffective.

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 quite helpful.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“As part of our New Zealand History topic this term, the students have done some dependent investigation. The Aotearoa NZ Histories kit was a great resource to involve students in group discussions, access their prior knowledge on what they know about the different postcards and make connections with our trip to the Auckland Museum. What things they have seen at the Auckland Museum that have noticed in the kit? What are some of the similarities and differences from then to now? The students have enjoyed the group work and presenting their information to the rest of the groups.”

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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 guess it still feels like there is SO much that can be covered for Aotearoa NZ's histories. I'm still not sure if I've ever done enough or focused on the right parts or wrangled an appropriate assessment.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I was thankful to the schoolkit team for pointing me towards cards that had our areas local history in them, however I have not had the time in class to explore them yet (I am excited to as this will tie in with the local histories work we did for the challenging racism kit last term).

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 absolutely love this and think that once I get to more cards will really appreciate what a treasure this really is. We all need to hear more voices, stories, opinions and break our echo chamber.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“The work, site and beautiful 'artefacts' in this kit are just phenomenal - so much work has been put into this resource. I wanted to absolutely love it just based on this. But I found it quite overwhelming, especially at first (I do know that the kit comes with a warning not to be. But I was when working through Justice - I felt I had to keep stopping and going ahead and through it all myself first, it was only later that I wrapped my head around teacher support for this). I've only managed to do two stories - Justice and Solidarity this term (and not in their entirety). By the time I got onto Solidarity, I felt much better and just adjusted the resource. My class is Year 9 and it felt like a lot of time was spent on the videos and questions in Tasks 1 and 2 to get to our task 3 each time - this is why we only did 2 cards all term. We ended up going through it all together. My students aren't super at independent work, but perhaps I should have tried harder to do it this way. I do think that once I have explored more cards I will fully appreciate the richness of this 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 supported me in furthering my understanding and also given me more information that I can trust, which enabled me to deliver this effectively to my class.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The stories and the way it was presented were amazing and It has shown me that sometimes simple and effective is the way to go.

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 pretty amazing, really clear and the students were able to connect in some way to each one we have done.

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

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“The way the package is presented was incredible and the resources inside were as exciting for me as it was for the students. The visual support and content was clear and easy to follow, the online community was fantastic too. It was awesome to connect with some of the stories. We have only started and I can't wait to leap into this deeper 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 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? Improved my confidence

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? Good to know the resource has the tangata whenua perspective, not just the colonial point of view

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“A fantastic resource to learn about the history of Aotearoa”

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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 has this kit impacted your confidence in delivering the new Aotearoa NZ's histories curriculum content? It's so helpful to have the planning document to follow as well as the access to all of the amazing resources.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We were already trying to kick start this, but following a similar process has allowed us to run similar investigations in our own local 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? It makes it real which is so 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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“Have loved using this resource. Have run it in my reading programme with small groups.”

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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? In my role as Cultural Lead I have had some exciting PLD within our Kahui Ako, in fact that was where I discovered this kit. The activities we have been working on to explore our local history can be adapted easily to work along side this kit so it has given me another lense to look throught.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Some of the activities were a little confusing to start with but we modified them to make them meaningful to us.

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 made the learning more meaningful for us. Students were able to make connections easier.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“The kit was comprehensive and exciting to our tauira. It surprised me how many things I just knew about were new to them. The activities were engaging and I am sure I will use them again in the future and modify them.”

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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? Start of the journey but the resources are well put together and we look forward to exploring more in the future

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? Respectful

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“We tried the Protest unit. The students could relate to the recent protests at Parliament which was good for the link to the past. The students learnt some new places in NZ and enjoyed seeing what life was like back in the 70's through the videos. We have not had the time to complete all of the activities but hope to do some more in Term 4”

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Posted 1 year ago