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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the daily texts and turtle tracking suggestion.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Probably 2

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We did our clean up at school because I couldn't organise an off site trip but the class have taken much more pride in our school grounds since then and still remind other kids across the school to not litter so that it keep sour sea rubbish free. We even made a video to share with the school about the impacts that littering has. They have gained an understanding they didnt have before about hte journey ribbihs goes on to get to the ocean and all the reprecussions that come with that. They talk about how we should recycle everything and came up with excellent sustainability solutions to help our turtle we adopted to live in a clean rubbish free ocean.

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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 don't want to to hurt Splashy" that was the name of our adopted turtle.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A whole drink bottle full of mud

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

“My class absolutely loved this kit. It inspired them and I was able to connect it across almost all of the learnign we did for 2 weeks. They were so engaged and asked for updates on our turltel regularly. It was really easy to use and just as easy to make it work for your classroom. I didn't use every activity or do it in the same order as was suggested but I was able to create an excellent unit that linked in with our kaitiagitanga theme for the term and have great learning opportunities that were hands on and really fun. Have kept everyting so I am able to repeat with my classes in the future.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves - enough for everyone to have their own. The turtle.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 3 but then the kids kept going and would spend their playtimes walking around the school picking up more.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The kids are definitely more mindful of what is going in the rubbish. They want to stop the rubbish going down the drains and out to the sea!

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? Put it in the rubbish bin so that Davis (our turtle) doesn't swim into it.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Lego.

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

“The kids absolutely loved this kit and we kept going for so much longer than I had planned. Even now that we are finished, they keep asking we can check our turtle. We had the Sea Cleaners come to school to talk to us, and this helped with the enthusiasm level as well. The kids loved to pick up the rubbish with their own gloves and analyse what it was.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Tracking the Sea Turtle and getting messages from the Sea Cleaners because it hooked the children in. Many children from my class said to their peers, "Thanks for putting your rubbish in the bin, you just saved an endangered sea turtle.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 2 very full ones

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? I am sure the children from Ngahape will continue to be Kaitiaki of our whenua.

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 be better at not using so much plastic !

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? The children were amazed by the hairless tennis ball.

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

“Ngahape, a year 2 and 3 class from Korakonui school loved this kit. What they don't know about Sea Turtles is not worth knowing. They tracked Ariel a green sea turtle. They learnt all about the importance of keeping our waterways rubbish free. They planted native trees around a fresh water spring on a local farm, educated our school on why we need to protect all waterways. Don't let the fact that your school is not near a sea stop you from taking part in this kit, after all, all water leads to the sea.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Tracking the turtles

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 10+. We try to do this on a regular basis.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The kids are empowered and know they have a job to do!

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? See the rubbish, pick it up! It's that simple.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? One Dr Marten shoe

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

“This kit was excellent. Being able to track an actual Sea Turtle was great, as the kids were so excited to see each day where the turtle was and try to come up with reasons for the movement. My class got right into protecting these creatures and even wrote a letter to the local newspaper about litter in our area. Then we got in touch with the local council and the children were invited to design a sign to place at the entrance to our beach, which is right near our school. The mayor came and unveiled this permanent sign, and the kids felt empowered and valued. We also designed posters which are on display in the main part of town on digital noticeboards. This all came about after taking part in this kit. A really awesome term of authentic learning.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The text messages from the Sea Cleaners- the students loved pretending that they were Winnie and writing a diary about her adventures in the sea. We loved tracking her each day, we really enjoyed cleaning and learning about rubbish and the impacts it has on the environment if we do not do our bit to keep our sea clean!

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The students identify and are proactive in keeping our playground clean and the benefits it has on animals.

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? Where's Winnie today? Can we check?

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? plastic straping

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

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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 absolutely loved tracking and following WInnie the turtle who was released In Florida,USA. Each day we would login to the sea conservation website and see how far she had travelled each day. We still look at her progress! The students had a lot of fun cleaning up our school so that rubbish doesn't end up in the water for creatures like WInnie, to accidently eat. We created artworks of the Sea cleaner boat and printed off her travels too.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? gloves for rubbish collection. Tangible, useful, meaningful.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We did it a number of times and ended up pouring it all into one of the sacks - which in total, it filled one of the white rubbish sacks you gave us.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? I have noticed a few children identifying often small pieces of rubbish, picking it up and putting it in the bin so it doesn't end up going down the drain.

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 are Rubbish Rangers!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? We had just had a community event at school that involved food trucks, so the most interesting pieces we found were unfortunately rubbish from food purchased from food truck vendors (a churros packet).

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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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 got quite focused on the rubbish collection around our school and have continued it regularly since starting the school kit. They loved the title of Rubbish Rangers and in fact I was telling a parent and she said she liked that title too and was going to use it in the future as well.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The tamariki LOVED the 'text messages' that they got from the boat captain as well as the actual cleanup day. We also created a collaborative art piece with another akomanga that looks incredible.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? I think 3

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It linked it beautifully to one of our school values of Kaitiakitanga

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 are rubbish rangers!" "be a good kaitiaki" "Seayonce swam 10 laps of the bike track today!"

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? LOTS of lost property was recovered!

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

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?

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

“My akomanga of 18 Y0/1 absolutely LOVED this inquiry. We went hard and fast over a two week period, with almost all out learning linking to the topic - and they THRIVED. There was so much creativity and opportunities to extend. They still ask about our turtle 'Seayonce' even 9 weeks later.”

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? It was helpful having the gloves and the poster to record down the results so we remembered about what we were focusing on.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Half a bag

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Absolutely, I think they are really thinking about where rubbish goes and how if affects life. They are very conscious of where their own rubbish goes. eg: paper recycling, wrapper free lunchboxes etc.

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 make sure we pick up any rubbish so it doesn't go in the waterways and hurt living things.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? We found a very small wooden cross.

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

“I have really enjoyed Diary of a Turtle this term. It linked with our Topic unit which was Science - Survival. I was able to focus the whole term around this topic. For our Reading, Writing, Maths and other curriculum areas I have built them around our topic. We had an amazing rubbish clean up of our school and gully area. Another class at our school is also doing Diary of a Turtle so we did our rubbish clean up on the same week. We sorted and took photos of the rubbish and wrote an email to share with the rest of the school our concerns. We also had a visit from Nick Ling who is Associate Professor in Biology and Ecology at University of Waikato come and give a talk to my class and the other class who were also looking at turtles. He gave a great talk all about turtles in our waterways and how this is a problem and could become even more of a problem with climate change.”

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