Diary of a Turtle 25 Reviews

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? cannot say yet

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? -

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Our tamariki are all very motivated by being kaitiaki of our whenua, your kit will help support this kaupapa.

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? -

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? -

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

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How well did this kit help your class build literacy skills?

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

“Hi, thank you for your resource. I need to apologise as we did not get around to using it this year. We did introduce it to the class prior to our school visit to Kelly Tarltons. We discussed the impact of bad environmental decisions on the well-being of turtles, the children were very interested in this. They were then able to make connections when taught about the injured turtles at Kelly Tarltons. As we have many of the same children in our class next year we will use it then. I look forward to using the whole kit in 2026.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The rubbish collection and tracking our turtle. This really helped to engage learners and see the real impact of rubbish in our environment and how much there is

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Learners are much more aware of the wider impact of rubbish at school and how easy this is to minimise

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? When we pick up our rubbish it doesn’t get into the water

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A car indicator

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

“I received this kit to teach with my year 0/1 class and found it really valuable. There was a good integration of various curriculum areas and it was easy to follow and complete each activity. My class is still talking about turtles weeks later and we continue to track out adopted turtle. Their understanding of how rubbish in our environment (school and local community) impacts on more than they think was great learning.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Turtle tracking, videos found on plastic in the ocean

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Much to the children's disgust we didn't do this. However they did bring in rubbish to save a turtle that they had found.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Still trying to save a turlte picking up rubbish. Children still ask weeks after we stopped following Clarissa Crumb turtle where she is.

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? pick up the plastic save a turtle.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Nothing really unusual. After sushi day was the day we found soy sauce bottles and plastic straws

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

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

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How well did this kit help your class build literacy skills?

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

“My Y0/1 were very interested in this topic. I found it diificult to negoitiate finding a turtle and the map was very little to blow up on the screen for them to see. We did work out how far it was that the turtle travelled each day in relation to our playground which was staggering. It was a shame that there were no NZ or closer to NZ turtles to track.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The rubbish clean up

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We used all bags but they were not full - we collected rubbish around our school so that the rubbish didn't blow into the creek near our school.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? I have noticed students picking up more rubbish around them as they are beginning to understand the impact it has on our environment around 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? Why is Moana not moving?

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Squishy toy

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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How well did this kit help your class build literacy 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 students loved tracking the turtle. The students chose our turtle and bagan the collaborative art piece. We then moved onto tracking our turtle and discussing the environment around us and how we can look after our erath and why we need to look after our Earth. We created our own Moana using recyclable rubbish and stuck them on the wall by our whole class Moana. We ended with completed posters of how to look after our world and did the clean up. The students were very excited and all participated with excitement. The only issue we had was Moana could not be tracked any more so this lost a little bit of the students interest.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The children really enjoyed the map of where the turtle went.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? One full bag.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Our children are much more aware of what happens to rubbish now.

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? Look at all the plastic we found.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Part of a toy tank

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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How well did this kit help your class build literacy skills?

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

“Lots of learning happened but I found it hard being part time and trying to fit it in on my days with all the other things that were expected to be done.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Posters, they looked great on the wall.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 8. But we only have 16 children...

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Kids still talk about putting rubbish away in the right places.

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? Did you know that fish get caught by rubbish in the sea?

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? ?

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?

Helped a little

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How well did this kit help your class build literacy skills?

Helped a little

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

“Kids loved having their special diary.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves were great for doing lots of practical mahi around the kura, but also keeping ourselves clean. Also how we could follow a turtle and they could relate the mahi they were doing to the turtle.

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 has impacted our class culture greatly. They are much more aware of their environment and pick up rubbish all the time. They share their new knowledge with others. Senior leadership in the school has recognised their commitment to keeping the kura clean.

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? "Imagine if an animal ate this!" & "This is so not cool"

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Takeaway rubbish and old socks

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?

Helped a little

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How well did this kit help your class build literacy skills?

Helped a little

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

“The diary of a turtle kit was great for my year 2 class. They have found a real commitment for ensuring that our kura is tidy and are always asking if we can go for our 'tidy kiwi hikoi' to pick up rubbish both around our kura but also in our community kai forest right next to the kura. The gloves and bags were great for this. They noticed how much rubbish was in our kura and were shocked. They took this learning home and would tell me stories about how they went to the beach and picked up rubbish with their whānau. They loved being able to track turtles and felt good that they were doing their part to ensure that turtles were living a great life.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? As our team was focussed on diary writing in literacy this was the most important part of the pack for our purposes.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? As our school caretaker does this daily we were unable to collect rubbish ourselves. However we walked our school grounds to identify areas in need of protection e.g. drains, bushes, fence lines and underneath classrooms.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The information on turtles added depth to our inquiry learning around our relationships with the environment

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

Very Low

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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 struggled to reach the surface with all the plastic wrapped around my neck.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? n/a

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

Helped a little

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How well did this kit help your class build literacy skills?

Helped a little

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

“This excellent pack contained a beach clean up kit, art project poster, guided teaching information and hard copy "text messages" to kick start the diary writing.”

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