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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The poster where to compile our results

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 2 bags - we are a very small school

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The children want to keep on tracking "their" turtle and they are much more aware of the concept of micro plastic

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? Year 1 student: X has a triangle on his water bottle but it has a different number compared to mine

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? a USB port

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

“Our students loved being able to choose a turtle to track. It took them around the ocean and enabled lots of language and geography learning. They loved our visit to Mission Bay beach where they got hands on with the beach clean up. The gloves were a huge hit! We took our rubbish back to school where it was sorted. The poster was extremely useful to help understand the different types of rubbish. Everyone had a look around the school for plastic bearing a triangle and a number.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Tracking and the information included.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We didn't get to a waterway or beach, but managed to collect a couple of bags around the school.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They have an understanding.

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! I noticed the turtle’s shell, I wonder what is under it?

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? It was basic household rubbish that has blown around the grounds.

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 had a very busy term. We managed to fit in our Turtle kit - and the kids loved it. They loved the fact they got to track a turtle (Miso Speedy). They learnt about how our rubbish can affect our sea life, and what we can do to help prevent this happening. We also learnt about turtles, and their environment. We made an acrostic poem, and did some art with a mosaic shell. Thank you for supplying such a great resource.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? postcards from Seacleaners, the texts about turtles. This brought to life what we were learning about and provided a link to writing.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 1 full bag, 3 half bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? it's helped our kids to understand that even if the rubbish isn't personally theirs, everyone has a responsibility to pick it up and look after our school/area.

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? "don't throw that in the red bin, it should go in the yellow bin because you can recycle it"- while we were on our rubbish hunt, sorting cans left behind in an alcove after the weekend.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? a rusted screwdriver- we think it was from the constructions site left behind last year!

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? Plastic Bottle Top, Plastic Container, Plastic Straw, 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 provided huge excitement for our learners during our ocean unit of learning! We used the kit to supplement our learning about tides, ocean animals and how plastic affects animals.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? All of it really - the kids felt like real kaitiaki wearing the gloves and collecting the rubbish, as well as being able to name and track a turtle.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 2 half bags, so 1 whole bag.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It has certainly made the students very aware of what is happening around them and they go out after lunch every day and do "kaitiaki time" and pick up rubbish around our area of the school.

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? "You can't just walk past that rubbish even if it's not your's. We are kaitiaki of our school."

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Not sure really - it was all just usual school lunch packets

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

“My class have been really engaged and invested in the Diary of a Turtle kit. We have tracked our turtle every could of days and done some neat information report writing about Sea Turtles. Whenever a "message" arrived about our turtle we were very excited. As our term inquiry was about Sustainability and Kaitiaki it worked in very well with the rubbish clean up and relating everything back to being guardians of our environment.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Clean up - hands on and practical

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 10 partially full - 3 classes worked together

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Renewed focus on 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? Can't answer this sorry

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Most of it was pretty similar

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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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

“Great kit. Gloves unnecessary for clean up at school. Kids liked the turtle website but distances were not oftern updated for the turtle we chose. Great resources on the whole.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Rubbish collection!!

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They are more aware of what rubbish can do and how we can be more mindful

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 are humans so dirty?"

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Deodorant can

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

“Our class had been reading the Hannah Gold novel "Turtle Moon" and were really interested in the conserving of turtles and how we can help them. Seeing this kit was an awesome extension for the students and we have loved being part of the sea cleaners! The writing tasks from the text were so popular! The students wrote from the mind of "Buddy the turtle" which is the turtle we chose to track.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves as children loved having their own set that they could use and then can keep to use at home.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? When we first started this project we collected a bag of rubbish for the first two week. We started a school focus and discuss the importance of our environment and rubbish and now we are lucky if we are

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We are a Green Gold school and rubbish has been a big problem this year school wide. I took it to senior management and we have had a school focus this semester and it has helped reduce the amount of rubbish left lying around.

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 am helping keep my environment clean" - 5 year old

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Cigarette container

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

“This activity is great to implement how even small actions can make a big difference. I changed the focus slightly as we have been having a big problem with rubbish around our school. We read the story "Little Turtle and the changing sea" and discuss what will happen with our rubbish and what could we do to make a change. Every week children used their gloves to go round and collect rubbish around our school community and learnt about different types of rubbish and what we could do with it e.g. recycle, reuse or bin it. It was a great topic to integrate into writing, reading and maths. This reduced the amount of rubbish around and it also made others in the school care for our environment and reduce the rubbish.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The messages, turtle, and colouring

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Great eye opener

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 have to look after the animals."

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? ?

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

“This was a fantastic unit that engaged my class and suited our term inquiry topic as we were looking at reduce, reuse, recycle as part of our wearable arts.”

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