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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The cleaning up at our local beach, the turtle tracker, the impact of rubbish and pollution.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? The 5 that we were given and the a few more.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It enhance the work we already 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? Why do people leave their rubbish around? More people need to be kaitiaki and take care of our environment and everything in it!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Tyres and carpet.

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 kids loved this! We have a strong culture of kaitiakitanga at our school so this fitted really well. We took the turtle tracker to a new level, with 'real' text mesasges. We also researched turtles and integrated our reading, writing and maths. Our whole team went to our local beach to clean up and the parent support was amazing. Real value in doing this kind of learning!”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? We loved the imessages each morning and tracking a turtle it brought up a lot of great oral language. We loved getting a personal pair of gloves too.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 10! Some only half full but we had to dispose of it quite quickly so couldn't do the rubbish sort.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? I hope they got a little bit of understanding about being guardians of our land

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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? There's so much rubbish at the college and we need to get rid of it!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A sweatshirt that was clogging a drain!

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

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

“The children loved adopting a turtle and we chose Haven to watch closely. They loved the daily imessages from the Sea Cleaner boat and loved tracking Haven. I got some great creative writing from the diary activity too. On our cleaning day the children loved bringing in rubbish grabbers and using the gloves that were provided. They were proud of collecting rubbish around the local campuses(our 6 and 7 year olds realised that college kids have such a habit of not using rubbish bins and pollting their grounds!) and we cleaned the neighbouring creeks. They felt they were helping the sea life in the stream and preventing the rubbish from travelling into the ocean! Such a great resource and the children got right into it.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the videos were great and being able to go out and collect rubbish after talking about the effects it has on ocean life and the sea turtles was great.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? By highlighting the threat of plastic pollution to the sea turtles, it made the children aware of rubbish in their school environment. Children are now proactively picking up rubbish during playtimes.

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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? "plastic is bad for the ocean and turtles"

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? hair ties

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

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

“The "A Day in the Life of a Turtle" educational kit proved to be a good resource. It was a perfect fit for our study of the ocean, adding significant depth and engagement to our classroom work. What immediately stood out was how interactive the kit is. It had a good mix of hands-on activities and a "diary" element that allowed students to track a turtle's journey. Crucially, the kit provides a good amount of education about turtles, covering key biological facts and the conservation challenges they face. The information was presented clearly, making it accessible to our junior students. By focusing specifically on sea turtles, the kit naturally fitted in with our work on the ocean and allowed us to make tangible connections between specific species and the broader health of the marine environment. The "A Day in the Life of a Turtle" kit was a well-designed, comprehensive, and valuable teaching aid.”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Making connections between what we do on land and what happens to animals in the ocean

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Students are much more aware of the role they can play

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 going to tell my whānau all about this!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Fireworks

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

“Awesome and engaging”

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Posted 1 month ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the text messages helped with their imagination for diary writing

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4 in total

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? the children are more aware of where rubbish can end up.

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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 your rubbish, save the turtles!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? guitar pick

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 children really enjoyed "tracking" their turtle, getting the daily "texts", writing their diaries, and the rubbish collection. They have been enthusiastic about rubbish collection.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The text messages really captured their imaginations and helped them to write the diary each day.

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 rubbish around 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? Put the rubbish in the bin and save the turtles.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A rubber glove

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 children really enjoyed writing the turtle diary and tracking the turtle around NZ. They were very enthusiatic during the rubbish clean up day and have been willingly picking up rubbish since then.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Tracking the turtle and the pictures made it feel real.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 5 bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We have been trying to imporve our school waste, this has helped the children to understand why this is important.

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? "Turtles are so cute and they need our help."

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Underwear!

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

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

“Myself and the students loved the Diary of a Turtle kit. We are using it as part of our Tangaroa unit of work. The children were keen to find out more about turtles in New Zealand. They are now getting into looking at how we can help the turtles.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Adopting a turtle, the children related to it well and loved taking ownership of its safety. The text messages from the sea cleaners were amazing, the children really believed were were getting messages about our beloved turtle. The collaborative art was perfect for our little ones, and it helped them get a deeper understanding of how large a turtle actually is.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We filled one as a class. It was a little tricky for little ones. Our school is extra clean anyway. :)

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We are so aware of what belongs in our ocean and what doesn't. We learnt that what we see on the ground flies into the sea too, so now we are extra diligent at picking up rubbish.

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 hope Haven (our class turtle) is ok. There was a storm near her last night. Everday the children talked about her emotions and challenges out at sea.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A hair brush!

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

“We are a young NE/ Yr1 class. We absolutley loved adopting a turtle and following her trackes everyday. We loved the extra curriculum linlks, especially the writing ones. The class adored making a collabortaive art work of a turtle, and we even created our own turtle and looked a how to crete a habitat.”

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Posted 2 months ago