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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The large posters and children loved the turtle with the tracker. And of course the gloves and big bags were great for our clean up.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We used all of them in small groups but probably filled one bag between 2 classes

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Children are keen to look after their school environment

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? I don't want to swim in rubbish.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A long piece of rusted metal which the children think had come off one of our old school go karts

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Wrapper

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“We loved being able to help the sea creatures and turtles by keeping our school environment rubbish free. We are close to a river and we talked about the rubbish riding down the rivers and heading out to sea, so even though we couldn't make it to the sea for a clean up, we felt we were doing a good thing by cleaning up around our school. We also loved how looking after the land and oceans is in our school whakatauki, so this was a purposeful link to our learning too.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The most exciting part of the learning for us was a the 'hands-on' aspect of picking up the rubbish, getting our own pair of gloves to use whenever we wanted to be collecting rubbish in our own time and sharing the amount of rubbish we found with the rest of the school.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Definitely, the 5 year olds are now collecting rubbish at break times and are feeling a sense of responsibility and kaitiaki for our school

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? He kaitiaki au, I am a kaitiaki.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A wheel off a skateboard

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottle, Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Container, Plastic Straw, Plastic Wrapper, Plastic Cup

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“The most exciting part of the learning for us was a the 'hands-on' aspect of picking up the rubbish, getting our own pair of gloves to use whenever we wanted to be collecting rubbish in our own time and sharing the amount of rubbish we found with the rest of the school.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? •updates from the sea cleaners, the little gloves were a hit

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We became katiaki of our school community, picking up rubbish at lunch times. We did not manage to collect many bags but it was enough to make a difference in the school community.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It has impacted our class positively in the sense that every one is proud to be making a difference. My tamariki are collecting rubbish they see even when it is not their turn to be kaitiaki.

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? Pick up a piece of rubbish if you are at the beach!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? MacDonalds meal pack(We do not have MacDonalds in our town so this caused quite a ruckus in class)

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottle, Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Wrapper

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“Kaaeaea enjoyed our inquiry topic this term-We explored the life cycle of a turtle, learnt about the different types of turtles and what impacts them in the ecosystem. The tamariki enjoyed receiving the little updates from the sea cleaners and I already have quite a handful who want to be marine biologists when they grow up!”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The children were very excited to see if we had a text message each day from Hayden. We lived the beach cleanup too.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 2 plus an old divers bag.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They are keen to pick up rubbish and put it in the bin.

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? Let's track Pebbles!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Coat hanger and a sock

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Container, Plastic Straw, Plastic Wrapper, Plastic Cup

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“Wow! This has been the best kit I've used so far. The kids and I were so engaged right from the start. It was lots of fun with heaps of hands on learning. We loved it.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The real life context.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We speak a lot about the SDG goals. This focus will follow through when we complete the diary of a turtle next year.

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? How did that rubbish get there? Was it left on purpose?

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A flat ball.

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottle, Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Container, Plastic Wrapper

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“We had already planned our Term, so we couldn't fully incorporate this program. The planning is thorough and easy to understand and adapt. We did a beach cleanup. The children loved that they are looking at real-life turtles.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The amount of rubbish and how it effects the sea and our local environment.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? To start with we collected 1 and a half on our first outing. Then we went down to a half after that. So about 5 bags all up.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The children understand the importance of looking after our environment all the time not just when it suits us.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? We need to look after our planet now and forever. We are proud to look after our home and local environment together.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A half of a tennis ball with a spider living in it.

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bottle, Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Wrapper

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“We use the Diary of a Turtle. Keeping the sea rubbish free with Sea Cleaners. We focused on the Teaching Guide. We watched our mission explanation and loved the title of Rubbish Rangers. We focused on a are to monitor and regularly keep rubbish free. We combined with Whaea Max and her class to make a greater impact on our local school environment the bottom field of our school. We are two classes Year 1 and Year 2. The children ended up taking the spare bags home with their gloves to clean up around their environment.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Tracking the turtle and rubbish collection

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? less than 1 - we are very tidy kiwis!

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Please see notes above - message delivered to the whole school

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? "Can we see where Sol is today?"

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Dress up shoes!

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bag, Plastic Bottle, Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Container, Plastic Wrapper

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“This fit so well with our Term 4 inquiry - "How Can I Be a Kaitiaki of My World?" Our class loved tracking a turtle and the text messages. The interactive nature of this turtle tracking was fantastic. We were able to complete a school clean up and the public park next to us. While we are not next to the beach, there is a creek that runs along side the back of the school field that eventually leads to the Tamaki Estuary. Chidlren can now clearly articulate what happens if they are not careful with rubbish and in particular food packets and where it will go. Our action of the environment clean up was shared via our school facebook page and some of our Year 2 students were interviewed by our principal for her Monday morning message to discuss the rubbish they found, what the impact was on the environment and gave a message to the whole school about being careful with foor wrapers (the main type of rubbish we found). Great impact from little people!”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Tracking the turtle and Captain Hayden texts and videos - brought it to life.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 1 whole bag of rubbish but will be looking to collect more next year as we continue to encourage our clean seas environmental learning.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We have made labels for our rubbish and paper bins for the kids to be more aware of recycling so less waste goes to the dump. It has shown the kids the impact rubbish has on the sea animals around the world and how far it can travel.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What’s a sentence you heard in your classroom that would help us understand the type of learning that was taking place? We really need to tell our parents to give us less packets in our lunches!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? We found electric fence tape and a lighter which the kids thought was unusual.

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bottle, Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Wrapper

How well did this kit help your class build statistical thinking and numeracy skills?

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Diary of a Turtle helped my students better understand the impact plastic waste can have on marine life. Agree

“Our class of year 0-4 have had an amazing adventure following our turtle Riptide. We have followed her journey the whole term and have loved seeing the places she has travelled. We learnt a little about her through a story (that Chat GPT help create using the information off the tracking site) We met Captain Hayden and his crew through videos and the text messages he sent were fabulous! We created art pieces, completed reading and comprehension tasks, did some of our own inquiry into turtles and shared our learning with our family at home. But most importantly we have learned to put our rubbish in the bin to show kaitiakitanga of our environment and all of the creatures that live within it. We have had students running up to us with rubbish in hand at out of school events saying 'this could kill riptide and other sea creatures!' We have loved seeing our students engagement in this topic, their love of Riptide and their dedication to keep our oceans clean. Thanks school kit for providing a really cool resource that we could take our own spin on and make it our own suitable for our own kids.”

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