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? So much more confident with this content

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Looking at old books/journals from the library as well as discussing with others memories of the 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 provided confidence that this wasn't just created in a boardroom and has had different perspectives viewpoints taken into account.

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This was a fantastic resource to use with fellow staff and students to give them some artefacts to hold in their hands and develop their connections to the history of our kainga.”

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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 certainly opens up ideas and information about NZ history

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes the model would be useful.

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 great.

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

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“Was a little trickier than first thought. The pictures weren't always clear about what was happening. We stuck with the first column. Some of the pictures I clicked on weren't finished, they didn't have anything behind them. Obviously a work in progress. Felt some of the concepts were a little beyond my kids.”

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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? This has been amazing having the content of what to teach ready to go.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The kids have been more motivated by this than what I thought they would be. We specifically started with those places closest to us, and they have been asking more questions 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? Made me more confident in feeling like I am teaching with a culturally appropriate lens

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

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“It's been so cool to dive more into the Aotearoa Histories curriculum with my class. It was great to have somewhere to start, and a guide for my students to follow. We were able to cover more content than I would have been able to on my own. For my year 4- 5 class, the reading expected in this programme was quite challenging for many students, however, we were able to work through this as a class. Some of the challenges were a bit tricky or could be explained more thoroughly. When students have to convert the values of products using inflation calculators, but this doesn't talk about Pounds to dollars, and the date of the calculator doesnt go back as far as the dates they are asked to find. A little tweaking might be needed, but it would be amazing for this to be used across NZ by all schools, with more events continuing to be added. Sorry, I have forgotten to take any photos to this point!”

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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? By using the kit I now feel I can be more confident in my approach to this area of the NZ curriculum.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Extreme motivation - grocery shopping takes on a whole new meaning. The roundabout is a pa site. The supermarket a brothel.....

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? Knowing that the SchoolKit was created in collaboration fused my thoughts on wether the information was truelly relevant to 'our place'

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“We are a rural primary school and this kit was used in a Year 4- Year 8 class. Mixed ages, abilities and ethnicities. Where to begin! As teachers, we choose a postcard of somewhere known to our tamariki - but not from a birds-eye view! The tamariki became hooked and wanted to know more and more. we researched about the town and the reasons why it had been chosen as part of this kit. 5 weeks later we were still finding out so much about our own area. The history, the cultures, the buildings, the professions, the schooling. The list goes on and on. An amazing asset for our school for years to come. Thankyou so much Schoolkit.”

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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 less confident as the kit was not user friendly for me

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I am motivated to look deeper into my 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? I thought this was a great way to a non bias view

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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“I found this kit to be a great resource for our local area. I would oofff preferred it not to rely so heavily on online as this made the resource difficult to use in my classroom. An off line option would of been a great resource or a full teacher guide that carried all the information required to follow the journey's”

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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 now.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes, and I could use the same model

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? Yes, as students can better relate to certain areas.

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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“This is a great kit. However, students need to have competent researching skills.”

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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 jam-packed with knowledge that I was lacking. I am learning alongside the students, but that's ok. I feel more confident having resources already there.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Hardest thing for me is finding resources and stories about our local area. I like the model but not sure how easy it would be to replicate

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? Makes it more authentic, reliable.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“This resource is amazing. I have learnt so much from using the kit already. We have been working on a guided inquiry using one postcard first (Promises) and are going to continue next term. A fair bit of scaffolding is needed for our Year 5/6 students, but overall they are engaged and we are having some great discussions.”

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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? In the future, I feel it would enhance my teaching. However, because our school has already an Inquiry system in place with ANZH topics, knowing what the resources are, would make future topics taught more supported.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I am already part of a team of teacher from our Rohe who are connecting with our local iwi to create such resources. This will be an ongoing project.

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 fantastic!

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

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“The treasure chest of resources for the NZ Histories kit, was absolutely fantastic. However, find out what some of the resources were, was tricky and meaningless (especially to someone who hadn't lived that History). Though there were topics to look at, topics that were already established by the schools, were not obvious in the School Kit kete/treasure chest. The website is helpful, but more time is required to explore the topics... rather than only one term.”

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Posted 1 year ago