Diary of a Turtle 25 Reviews

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? n/a

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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? n/a

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? n/a

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

“I saw posts online from schools that used this kit at their local beach. Looked great with many possibilities for integration in the classroom.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The messages from the turtle boats! made it realistic for them (Year 1s!)

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We did regular collections around the school

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The were very motivated to look after their turtle!

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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? Im going to make sure my rubbish doesnt get eaten by the turtle!

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

Which of the following types of plastic waste did your class collect? 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 kids loved this kit! They loved receiving messages about their turtle and thinking about what the turtle was doing and where she might be going. They were very motivated to create drawings and artwork about their turtle. It was also good for them to think about ways they could help the turtle to stay safe such as making sure they picked up all their rubbish at school and when they were out and about with their families.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? just did Dairy of a turtle

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4 plua a back of a ute - we did it as a junior team

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? A lot - my class are forever picking up peices of plastic to stop it going into our waterways

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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 wont turn into compost will it?

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? a little figurine

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

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

“Loved the bags and the gloves again - so motivating for collecting rubbish in our gully. I didnt do the track the turtle part as many of my young students have no idea or can relate to where america is. Is it possible to track turtles in the pacific? Otherwise loved all the resources - you guys rock. Some of them we ran out of time for but they were still an aweosme lesson to plan for.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The diary cards were my children’s favourite. 5 & 6 year olds really engaged with that.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The children have learnt the importance of keeping our environment rubbish free, & they know everything ends up in our lake & then the sea.

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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 didn’t think our rubbish could get to the sea & kill turtles.”

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? I can’t remember as we did this a couple of months ago.

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

“The kit enabled learning about turtles, tracking, the importance of keeping the environment & sea clean were all important for children to learn.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The turtle with the barcode so that children could scan and watch the movement of the turtles. The provision of gloves and bags.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 1 - ( 2 inner city beaches)

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

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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 let your wrapper go down the drain, we want to keep the animals safe - sentence said to another child at lunchtime as a wrapper started blowing away.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? toothbrush

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

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

“As a class Rm 11 loved the meaningful connection between our clean up and the turtles that they got to watch.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The rubbish collection - able to see cause and effect, be kaitiaki / guardians of the environment. Loved the gloves and the specific rubbish bags as well as sorting the rubbish. Also loved tracking the sea turtles, real life / real time, good way to include technology for younger students.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They have developed a better understanding on how a piece of rubbish dropped on our school field, can be picked up by wind, end up in a gutter, get moved down a drain, and end up in the ocean - an animals habitat. A simple example made such a big impact to them and the importance of putting rubbish 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? "Eeeewww gross" when discovering the amount of rubbish in our local area!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? T-Shirt

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

“This integrated well into our Inquiry topic - Habitats - How does a habitat ensure an animal survives and thrives? There was some great ideas and inspiration in here, particularly tracking the turtle. The class absolutely loved this, right from the start they were excited to receive mail! We were lucky to find a turtle that had been released that very day (Moana). The rubbish collection was a great way for tamariki to understand cause and effect, even though we didn't clean a beach area, we have big drains that lead to the beach. They were very proud of their rubbish clean up and were quite shocked by how much and what we were able to find.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? tracking a 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? we are more aware of what things are distructive to our sea animals and hopfully more of them will take care of their rubbish at the beach and collect other peoples too.

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? IDK

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? we found lots of clothes. we also found a few bones [not chicken]

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

“My class loved tracking a turtle so much we are still tracking it! They also enjoyed the beach clean up and sorting rubbish we collected. The ONLY improvement I suggest is to include TWO puzzle turlte art sheets because at this age there is always ONE that loses a piece. See attached photo! also there is a missing piece from the art turtle. We also liked doing a siapo turtle art as you can see. We did a lot of learning about turtles and their life in the sea and how they reproduce.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The little gloves

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? By making a connection between what they can do as children and that they really can have an effect/impact and the outcome isn't just the land, its the animals, which children can relate to.

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? When we pick up rubbish we help animals that live here.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? rusty nails

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

“It was great to receive the little kid sized gloves. This was so so great for a community clean up”

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Posted 2 months ago