Diary of a Turtle 25 Reviews

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Text messages and tracking the turtles

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The class is becoming more aware of the different types of rubbish. They understand the importance of ensuring their rubbish goes in the right place so it doesn’t kill the sea creatures. Many kids in the class went out during playtime to pick up any rubbish they could find.

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 make sure our rubbish goes in the right place so it doesn’t kill any sea creatures or end up in the rubbish patch in the ocean.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Plastic straw

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

“My class absolutely loved doing this school kit. They especially enjoyed tracking the turtle and the text message cards. We went on a successful beach clean up and the gloves were great. Would definitely recommend Diary of a Turtle.”

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Posted 3 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The turtle having the QR code - easy for the kids to use independently.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 2 big bags.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The kids were constantly picking up rubbish off their own bat. It was very cool to see.

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 protect the ocean!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Hair tie

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

“So the term started out well. In small groups they children tracked a turtle. We even put the QR code on our calendar art so the kids can still track it at home. One problem I faced as a teacher- the new internet bans in schools restricted the children being able to use it independently on an ipad. We were able to download the app but this stopped working. Something to consider going forward as we can't access a lot now due to the new government changes around the use of internet. Otherwise the kit was FABULOUS! Thanks so much.”

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Posted 3 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Using the gloves to pick up rubbish around our school was definitely a highlight for my 5 year olds

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We collect rubbish every Monday afternoon which normally consists of big bag

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The children are now well aware of how important it is to put their rubbish in the bin.

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? My rubbish is going straight in the bin so the seagulls don’t steal it

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Not really unusual but lots of cans

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 children were really engaged in this topic and enjoyed following our turtle”

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Posted 3 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The turtle following, research the difference between turtles and tortoises and the rubbish collection:sorting and counting data, making a graph.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 1, for the kit, but we collect at least once a term in our area.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Made us all very aware of how the environment is impacted by our behaviour and how long it takes to rehabilitate turtles who are negatively impacted by all the, especially plastic, polution

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? Are we going to read about the turtles now?

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Paper clip in the garden.

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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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

“I enjoyed the kit, just struggled to do the tracking of one turtle, so we focused on the Sea turtle whatsapp messages. Made diary of entries we read and what we learnt about turtle behaviour. It is so fascinating. Kids enjoyed. (I am not very tech savvy.)”

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Posted 3 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? We enjoyed the cardboard cut out of the turtle, which really helped finding out about turtles. The children were excited to receive their own pair of gloves to collect rubbish too.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? About 6 bags of rubbish.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? This kit has absolutely had an impact on my class, especially around how rubbish can affect sea creatures.

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 protect our sea life.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Not unusual, but we did find plastics that helped us discuss sustainability within our community.

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?

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 of Year 1 and 2s were very engaged in learning about Turtles. This kit brought awareness to my students about how rubbish can cause harm to our sea life and community. I was able to integrate your amazing kit into all curriculum areas. It was great to observe the interest in writing about sea life. It was great to have the rubbish bags and gloves to have hands on collecting of rubbish, which encouraged my class to really think about plastic waste and not only our community, but our wider community, beaches and sea life. Thank you so much, we loved using your amazing kit.”

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Posted 3 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The clean up kit because it was an easy to organise activity for our class.

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 made them realise how much rubbish collected around them.

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? This is so much fun

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

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

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

“We loved this, being able to follow a turtle and then cleaning up our local beach was amazing. Such a great focus for term 4.”

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Posted 3 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Postcards - created a real experience.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Definitely - and made children aware of the many waterways surrounding our 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? "We need to pick up our lunch rubbish so it doesn't go down the drains"

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Many many school balls discarded around our tree lined border.

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?

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

“Children loved the postcards. Tracking the real tutles was a daily highlight.”

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Posted 3 weeks ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The tracking 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 made us really look at our local foreshore, especially after a storm.

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? thats really far!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A

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

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

“This was a magnificent learning resource. It was engaging and accessible for students form Y0-8. We loved the tracker, the text update cards and all the excellent resources for our clean up.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago