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How inspired are your students to engage in future sustainability action?

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Child1 said 'If we don't get the rubbish out of the ocean and our beaches we won't have much sea life when were older and have our own children." Child 2 said " I don't want to go to the beach and it have yucky rubbish all around it".

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves so we could get stuck in using them for picking up rubbish everyday and while we were on our beach trips. The posters were very useful to have up around the classroom.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We collected a whole sack full of rubbish from our beach trip. We collected about half to a bag on other days around our school grounds.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Yes we have been writing about human impacts on waterways including rivers/lakes/ocean/ streams and they are now thinking about what is left around and how the environment is effected..

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That they will think more about how they are affecting the enviroment, encouraging reusing, recycling and not leaving rubbish around anywhere they go.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) -36.603295, 174.708136

What was your cleanup location type? School, Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Cups, Food Wrappers, Straws, Household Waste, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A coat hanger. We wondered why would that end up at the beach.

“Room 11 from Red beach School used the sea cleaners kit to go down to Red beach and pick up rubbish with the gloves. We found a bag full of plastic, old toys etc. We used the posters to show that animals are eating the rubbish and a lot of rubbish is ending up in the sea and hurting our sea life. We have used some online planning resources for our Social Science plan. This includes links to movies like 'The lifecycle of a plastic bottle' these resources had a big impact with the class.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I loved the gloves, it is important to clean our world

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? gloves - everyone got something

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? it comes up more often now

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? further facts we found out about litter and water ways

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 50 meters

What was your cleanup location type? Green Space

Which of the following types did your class collect? Food Wrappers

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? a coin

“We cleaned a park/lake near our school”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I loved the gloves and I will go to the beach in the holidays and use my gloves to do more beach cleanup.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves - to stay safe from germs and dangers of the rubbish we were collecting.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We used all the bags but didn't fill them up. We collected 750 items of rubbish.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The children want to make a difference for the future and they are persuading their parents to eliminate plastic in their lunch box.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They now understand how much plastic is destroying our environment.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) Didn't measure it.

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Household Waste, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? Plastic netting from the retaining wall. Because the council has used plastic to retain the wall and it is breaking apart and going into the ocean and surrounding area which is not great thinking by the council!

“We used the kits in conjunction with other things we had planned such as statistics and persuasive writing. The things in the kit were perfect. We used the gloves and bags and did a beach cleanup. We used the posters to inspire persuasive writing. Everything in the box was totally on target for our topic.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them 1. We need to look after our waterways so they are clean for people to use 2. It is really sad how much rubbish is in our river and then our oceans too.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The practical ones - bags and gloves.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? All were filled and we had to use some of our own biodegradable ones for wet things.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We talk about kaitiakitanga all the time so it was implemented into that learning. Overall, they have gained a sound understanding and the kit contributed to that.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That we need to protect our environment for future generations

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) I did not use this.

What was your cleanup location type? Native Bush, River

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Cups, Food Wrappers, Straws, Household Waste, Tin Cans, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A Lime Scooter!

“This kit was perfect for our unit about protecting our waterways. We used it to clean up an area along the Waikato River. The only issue we found was that the gloves weren't really appropriate for what we did. The bag also got wet so biodegradable ones might be more effective.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I learnt what sea cleaners is about and why we need to look after the beach." "The people were nice and their boat was great. I always pick rubbish up now."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gathering all of the rubbish at the end to see how much there was on such a short stretch of beach.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Yes it has. we have been focusing on Kaitiakitanga this year and this really fitted in with what we were doing.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? To continue to be guardians of our. precious resources.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) 43°29'40.9"S 172°43'36.2"E

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Household Waste

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A huge piece of carpet buried under the sand

“This was a great experience for our students. Being the closest school to the beach, we always find it important to tell the importance of the beach environment. They are still talking about it. Tah\hank-you.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I still have the gloves, so I could just go around Feilding, and pick up rubbish". "I learned that the ocean makes a little line of rubbish on the sand when the tide goes out." "In the future I am going to pick up rubbish when I see it." "I found out that lots of rubbish gets picked up by the wind and then covered by sand so you cant see it, and then it can get washed out to sea".

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The kids enjoyed using the gloves and wanted to keep them for future beach clean ups with their families. They also liked the posters that we could glue parts of rubbish on to the bodies of sea creatures - to show the impact of rubbish in the sea. The big poster that we had to fill in was a great way to help guide us when sorting the rubbish into different groups.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? one

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We already make a big effort to be clean and tidy and do local town tidy-ups, so the kids were used to doing the rubbish pick up. But seeing how this rubbish can affect the sea and sea life was quite impacting.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They will be more likely to pick up rubbish around sea/beach areas from now on, knowing the damage that rubbish can cause when it floats out to sea.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) longitude: 174.9007. Latitude: 39.8847

What was your cleanup location type? Park, Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Tin Cans, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? synthetic hair - we arent sure what it came off - but it looked like a wig/fake fur off a coat and it had been in the sea for quite a while as it had seaweed growing inside of it.

“The sea cleaners kit is a great way to educate kids on all the different types of rubbish that can be found on or near the beach. We talked a lot about small pieces of plastic that get broken down to be small enough for fish to swallow. We noticed that when the tide went out, we found lots of small pieces of plastic that had been swept ashore on the tide line along with other shells/driftwood/seaweed. We also talked about the fact that the rubbish found in the park beside the sea could easily be thrown about on a windy day and be thrown onto shore, which then can float out to sea and harm sea creatures.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Can we walk back on the other side of the road so we can get the rubbish from there too? Can we keep the gloves so we can pick up rubbish again?

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves. The children loved having something specically for them.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It fitted so well with our persuasive writing about rubbish and looking after public spaces. Thank you!

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? An awareness that we can make a difference.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) (sorry I don't have th eposter with me right now) - Campbells Bay Beach, North Shoe, Auckland, 0620

What was your cleanup location type? Beach

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Straws, Household Waste

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? A pair of shorts!

“This kit was perfect! The gloves fitted their little hands well and the double-walled bags held the rubbish we collected well. The students LOVED walking to our local beach and collected the street rubbish the whole way there too. They found more rubbish by the roads than on the actual beach!”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Students liked wearing the gloves.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 3/4 of one bag

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It made learners more aware and they had long discussions about where rubbish ends up and how rubbish gets disposed off.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? We are hoping that learners will educate their wider families about their learning and take steps at home to organise their rubbish at home.

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What was the latitude and longitude of your clean up? (from Sea Cleaners poster) don't know

What was your cleanup location type? School

Which of the following types did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottles, Food Wrappers, Toys

What was the most interesting piece of rubbish found and why? toys

“The children used sea cleaners to pick up rubbish around the school grounds and sorted the rubbish in groups of what materials had been used. Most of the rubbish that got found was plastic used to pack chips and muesli bars. Then we looked into our drains and found out that part of the rubbish ends up in the drains. But we also found old classroom resources such as counting material, pens, etc in there. Then we made posters for children to take rubbish from lunchboxes home and keeping our drains healthy.”

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Posted 1 year ago