Diary of a Turtle 25 Reviews

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The children loved the rubbish clean up, they often spent break times cleaning up the play ground.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The children were able to easily make connections with how they can keep our school and community tidy. They loved having their own pair of gloves.

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? If the rubbish goes down the drain it goes to to the sea

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? toys down the drain.

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?

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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 children were very engaged. They loved the text messages and the impact of rubbish and what we can do at school to reduce rubbish in the playground.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? First the tracking of the turtle as it made it very real for the children and they could follow it daily to see what was happening. Secondly the Clean up we did at the end. It made the children talk about the impact their own action have on their school environment.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Our children still talk about how much litter we collected and what would have happened if we hadn't done so. They are aware of the drains beside our play/eating area and how we need to ensure rubbish doesn't go down the drain and into the water ways.

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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 please see where Mytle (the name given to our turtle) is today?

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Alcohol bottles left on the school field!

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 was a very cool kit that had our kids hooked from the beginning. They loved tracking their turtle, and we were able to base a lot of learning around this (Literacy, maths, art). We finished this about 3 months ago and the children still mention it now. The 'clean up' was completed very locally (as we have 5-7 year olds) but this still had a big impact on the children and we have seen a positive roll-on effect since. This was an awesome kit and I totally recommend it.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The tracking of our turtle. They loved seeing how far she had travelled and were then very concerned about the rubbish around our area incase our turtle ate it.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We collected 4 full bags.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It made them really think about it and it was good to connect it to the turtle. My kids will bring me pieces of rubbish now that they find outside to then 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? I don’t want this piece of rubbish to end up in Moana (our turtle).

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Random blue stringy stuff that we couldn’t identify what it was.

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

“My class was super engaged and loved taking part in it. They would remind me everyday to check on our turtle. They loved doing the art project and absolutely loved going out into our school to collect rubbish and look at the data we had collected. Overall was amazing and I really loved the videos and the step by step process so that the teaching was true and proper!”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The turtle tracker helped my students connect to the topic. They were often asking to use the ipad to track where Rush now was. My class enjoyed learning about turtles and facts about them e.g. what habitats they live in, what they eat.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We collected 3 big bags full on our clean up day. We also did another clean up at school where we picked up 1 bag.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Our whole culture has grown on picking up rubbish and being responsible members for all the rubbish in our space and 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? "Grace we should do a class trip to see that Rush is safe? Is the water clean where Rush is?"

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? a scarf

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? 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 school kit prompted thoughtful conversations and discussion across our classes. It provided an opportunity for my class to look after our land acround us and learn why it is important that we clean up rubbish. The activities provided opportunities for across the curriculum with my students particularly engaged in the literacy and art activities. My class particularly loved writing informative pieces on turtles and then making the shell of a turtle using recycled newspaper to paper mache. Another class in our hub did turtle art using egg cartons. Our students started a competition across our hub to see which class could collect the most rubbish- I don't think our playgrounds and classrooms have looked any cleaner. From this school kit, our hub has commited to doing one clean up each term at our local park.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Rubbish collecting resources were great for our year group to visually see the results of their pickup

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Hopefully it has planted a seed in the minds of the students in my class - I definitely saw students picking up rubbish of their own accord at lunchtimes for a number of preceding weeks

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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 do something better about all the rubbish at our school"

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? McDonalds takeaway bags etc - we are a long way from a McDonalds, so this shows the vulnerability the school has to people using the grounds outside of school hours

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

“Unfortunately I don't feel we got the most out of these resources (through no fault of the resoureces themselves, more the time we were unable to put towards all the learning content”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The turtle tracking app. Postcards

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? One

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Yes the children often still say don't let that rubbish blow down to the river and go out to Tortellini.

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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? "Tortellini would have to be careful!" The children still remember Tortellini, the turtle we tracked, and will still refer to her most weeks.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? hairclips

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?

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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 great topic for my Year 1 children. They thoroughly enjoyed tracking our turtle, Tortellini, every day and even got their families involved. We recorded her distances and change of direction by adding masking tape and turtle images to our wondows. There were many discussions about why she travelled so far some days and not many kms other days. We enjoyed the postcard messages. We read many books about turtles and wrote reports, descriptions and imaginative stories. We looked at the river that flows through our town and down to the sea and collected rubbish on our school grounds, near that river. The children loved their gloves and we spent all afternoon sorting and counting. I wish you had many more of these kits available for juniors. Ideally I would love one for every term.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Turtle tracking and text message cards. Rubbish sacks and gloves for practical activity

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Children talk about looking after the river alot

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? Fun

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Nappy

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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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

“Children enjoyed tracking turtles and getting messages. Good kit”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Sea turtle tracking resources. The children loved checking in with our turtle every 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.

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 don’t want Billy to eat our rubbish.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A spoon

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? 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 kit was awesome. My year one class loved tracking their sea turtle, and the messages that were provided in the kit helped the children to relate what we were doing to their own lives.”

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Posted 2 months ago