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 provides resources and information at your fingertips. It gives an awesome foundation.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? For our colonial history - yes absolutely. We are currently working with iwi in regards to Māori 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? Currently none - however it has a lot of potential to have collaboration with iwi.

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

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“I am working through stories with 2 of my literacy groups. I am seeing interest and engagement as they explore and learn about Aotearoa before they were born. They are exploring the links independently and then we are engaging in thoughtful discussion about the content. It is really awesome to hear their thoughts and understanding. Their engagement is a delight!”

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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 greatly improved! I have a large range on stories across time at my fingertips, whereas before i struggle to find information and to know what questions to ask.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? This model is usable for teachers. It helps to give you starting points, historical events, and locations. The pepeha for each place also connects with our new school pepeha so that is great too.

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? Very important to me. It is great to know that Maori shared their views, ideas, and stories. It lends confidence when delivering important historical stories.

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

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“This kit is a wonderful resource and works with lessons easily. The resources are meaningful and engaging. Students enjoy trying to figure out the pepeha for each place. The student-facing website is incredible and I cannot recommend it enough.”

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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 is a great starting point and can lead to other areas of history being explored in a similar manner.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes. This model could be adapted to research our local area - if we knew something already about the area's 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? Makes the kit contents authentic.

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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“I have used three of the stories so far and fully intend to use more as the term progresses. Each story has loads of activities for the students to do: research opportunities, videos to watch, sound bites to listen to, artefacts to look at and pictures to decipher. One of the most interesting things for the students is to find out where the co-ordinates take us!”

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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 opened my eyes to a wider range of stories and perspectives.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? I absolutely could. It has helped break down barriers about teaching and leaning about NZ 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? It meant we were teaching relevant history with correct information. This is important in a world where information is hard to come across accurately.

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

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“It was great to have the cards linking to stories in our history all over Aotearoa. There was so much to go on - the only shame is we ran out of time to fully get through it all! However, I'm aiming to use bits and pieces throughout other learning areas. The quality of the resources are fantastic, highly engaging and relevant.”

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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 helped a lot. I can see that teaching nz histories involve a variety of resources and ‘detective work’ investigating

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Very much so. We started looking at one that was based in our region. My learners are now asking what else has happened, especially around our Kura

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? Powerful. We appreciate the work done to help us learn more about where we are and where we are from

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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“I really enjoyed learning alongside my students. Showing Ako (both student and teacher as learners). We enjoyed unpicking the pepeha which was massive for us as a lot of our learners didn’t know what a pepeha was and none of them knew where to start. I think I can say we have begun our own journeys in navigating our own pepeha as we know what it means and what it involves. It’s been great to see the students learn and decipher the meaning but also enjoying the process. The stories were very in depth so I was able to gauge where to go and when to stop which was very easy with this kit. I liked how flexible it is for our learners. We have unpicked two stories so far and each one we do we get better at. I have found that my learners are learning new skills especially for inferring photos, maps and graphs which is quite beyond their learning but they are beginning to understand.”

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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 provides a great launching point for conversations and objectives for the curriculum

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? We can definitely use this model in our local area. We can collectively think of a meaningful place and find stories connected to 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? It gives the content more depth and allows for students to consider the mana held within communities

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

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“This resource pack is an amazing combination of unique stories, engaging physical objects and photos, and tasks that can be delivered as independent or completed as whole class exploration. My neighbour teacher is using this resource for her reading comprehension tasks. Next term I will be doing the same. I'm looking forward to unpacking a story with my class, allowing them to independently research using the website, and utilising more computer skills such as Google maps to make more connections.”

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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? Yes

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? Very impactful

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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“This was just what we needed as we explored NZ over time. It was interesting and engaging for the students. Thank you.”

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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 detail in the stories was helpful as was the ease of finding primary sources for reference. Easy to use and prepared me well.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? The primary sources were great. It was easy to choose those historical stories that related to our place. We have integrated the local histories curriculum across all of our class programmes (Yr 2-11 currently).

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 gives true authenticity to the content. Awesome that people were given the opportunity to tell their stories. Students were engaged with “real life” accounts.

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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“I used this resource with a Year 11 class and found the many resources (around a multitude of topics) immensely useful. We were able to choose histories that are local to us and had played a part in the environment and people around our area.”

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Posted 1 year ago