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? Impacted confidence hugely, easy way to deliver content.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? 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? Incredible! This is one of the purposes of the new curriculum. It also meant that we did not have to find out the information ourselves, especially when teaching makes you very time poor.

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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“This was so easy to use and helped to develop both my and my students' knowledge of the new curriculum. Great way to increase knowledge, kids loved the interactive website. It allowed them to collaborate and discuss concepts and ideas.”

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Posted 2 years 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 was confident before, but now I have the resources to back up the programme.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? most 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? this gives the programme legitimacy

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“School Kit made the teaching of ANZHC easier. As always, new initiatives must be resourced well. However, the lack of resourcing is unsurprising and that's where School Kit stepped in. We received numerous photos, artefacts and other amazing ideas for teaching the new curriculum. They were easy to use, free, interesting, well made, durable and did I mention free? The best item was the 'something happened here' resource. Our students analysed the photos, with prompting from teachers, and were able to glean enormous amounts of insights into the way things were. Thanks School Kit, I'll definitely be using your services again!”

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Posted 2 years 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 is so well resourced it makes it easy. Having the website to guide us is fantastic. The different level of questions are great as we can direct our learners to tasks that suit them.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes but I am not sure I have the skills to set up the resources. Our area is rich in history just like all areas in Aotearoa. It has motivated me to do a better job of our 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 was reassuring knowing that what we were teaching has been approved by our iwi.

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 very busy unit. I am using it with Year 7 students and the tasks were a little 'loose' for them. I just reorganised parts and set it out so I could load it into google classroom on a doc they could write on. They are very awesome activities but my group of students did not have the skills to work through the activities the way they were set out. The range of activities is great and the Te Reo is fantastic. We will use it over the year and next year. We are doing one every couple of weeks and I now have a few students who are up to working through the tasks by themselves. The stories are real and very engaging. Thank you!”

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Posted 2 years 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

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? More interested in 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? Great to come from there.

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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“Great depth with understanding from this kit.”

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Posted 2 years 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? Was an extra bonus it was awesome

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Yes we are also looking at local purakau which ties in nicely

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 was a cool link for the tamariki!

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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“Wow what an amazing way to initiate conversations about our past.”

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Posted 2 years 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? Good place to start

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? No, local area history is hard to find and takes a lot of time.

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? 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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“This box of goodies is really well presented and thought out. It gave me a place to start which helped make history feel less overwhelming. I started with Nuclear which the kids have loved. It did help a lot that I have background knowledge as the little readings don't always have much detail. Each column is leveled but I find if you don't read all three you don't get the whole story. One of the videos in Nuclear had a half naked woman towards the end so I was glad I watched it first and stopped it before that point. Overall, I am enjoying using the pack but think some of the reading is too difficult or lacks detail for this age group (year 6/7/8) to properly comprehend the story.”

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Posted 2 years 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 kit has been awesome at providing a clear structure that can be used in a range of contexts. I used this to help plan for exploration into our local history.

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? As described above - yes! I've uploaded a photo to show one of the learning tasks we completed using the same structure of this kit through a local lens.

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 these were developed in consultation with iwi/whānau/community, we did the same when exploring our local history.

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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“Once you get started, this kit is awesome. We used it to develop our research skills, and to understand that history is around us/always beneath our feet. I used the structure of this school kit to create our learning pathway for this term also. We have been exploring local history in particular using the skills and methods we learnt from the kit.”

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Posted 2 years 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 but will also probably not use the kit again

How has this kit motivated you to explore the history or your local area? Could you use this model? Not really

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? Was great to know

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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“I really enjoyed the stories and the different perspectives. I found out stuff I didnt know however i found a lot of the tasks above my students level and there was a lot of reading. Some more hands on activities would have been great.”

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Posted 2 years ago