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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The rubbish clean up charts and equipment because it helped us to organise our data about rubbish and the text messages because they engaged the students in writing.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They are quick to spot rubbish and to put it in the bin to keep our turtles safe and they are now more aware of recycling and the effect of rubbish in 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? We need to put that bag in the bin so that our turtle does not think it is a jelly fish to eat.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A small part from a tiny plastic magnifying class - maybe part of a lego toy

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?

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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 really good kit. The class were all really engaged in the learning opportunities and couldn't wait to see where our turtle was and also to recieve the text messages from the Sea Cleaners. They learnt a lot about sea turtles and it gave them a lot of motivation for writing. The rubbish clean up was very successful and encouraged a lot of great discussion about recycling and where our rubbish goes.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Turtles created empathy and accountability. We even had a vist from two turtles one of our year 7/8 teachers brought their pet turtles to school for the day.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 1/4

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Kids stop and collect rubbish now, excited about rubbish duty when our class is on duty

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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 hurts the fish!

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

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

“Great kit to help kids learn about how rubbish gets into water ways.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves, the kids loved having something that was theirs that they could use for a great purpose

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? My class now asks to collect rubbish in the school grounds during break times.

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

“What a great kit to teach younger kids (6 and 7 year olds) about the importance of cleaning up our environments and putting their own rubbish in the appropriate place. Unfortunately we received this kit a term after we thought we would have got it so we were not able to put as much time into as it needed.”

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Posted 2 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The videos from the sea cleaners and the links to adopt a turtle were fantastic.

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

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Our children will collect rubbish they see on their way to school and in our school environment.

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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 is Haven today. They loved finding out how how far our turtle had traveled over the past 24hours.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? They found baby clothes.

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

“Our children just loved this idea and we did some amazing work following our turtle and notes from the sea cleaners. The kit was very helpful and our clean up was also done with enthusium and energy from our children at age only 6 and 7 years old. Our families were amazed at the knowledge the children took home with them. The only thing that let the kit down was not being able to provide our class with a decent size map of where the turtles are located and it took a lot of wasted time trying to enlarge a map of the area in relation to the little turtle cut outs.”

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Posted 3 months ago

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

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We have a stream that runs through the school and the rubbish can creep into the creek. So keeping the rubbish clear means it doesn't go in the stream that links to the rivers and into the 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? This would not be good for our waterway if it got into it.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Pieces of carpet and a concrete bag

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

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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 had great information around the tracking of the turtles and suplying the gloves so the students can be a part of the clean up.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Rubbish collection tied to looking after a real life animal.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We have been having ongoing discussions around looking after our environment including classroom resources, school and neighbourhood.

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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? Think about Bella

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Home made bong from a coke bottle and garden hose.

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

“Our class loved the selection of activities to do within this kit. We tracked a turtle, thought about what its life would be like in order to create diary entries and looked after our local park by collecting rubbish. They enjoyed the art and ongoing conversations around looking after our environment.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The turtle tracker and equipment supplied for documenting and collecting rubbish.

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 has created greater awareness amongst our learners in regards to how we can care for our environment and limit our impact on it through sustainable practices.

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? Mathematical language based on the distance the turtles travel.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Drug paraphernalia made from a plastic bottle

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

“A practical guide overarching the main curriculm areas, with great support for implementation. The programme helped our students understand how plastic polution impacts marine life.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The Turtle tracking and rubbish collection.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? A lot of kids said their whānau throw rubbish out car windows. Now they know the impact on the environment they can take this information home.

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? Sea Turtles can swim faster than the faster human swimmer!

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? An empty paint pot

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

“The school kit had such an impact on my all Year 3 classroom. What I thought would be a couple of weeks worth of mahi ended up being the marjority of Term 3 worth of engagement. We spent some weeks on the concept of rubbish after our rubbish collection, learning about all the different types of plastic and what we can and can't recycle. We created Don't Litter posters. My class became the school rubbish rangers at lunchtimes. Choosing to pick up rubbish rather than play after learning where our rubbish goes if we litter. We then tracked our Turtle Bella through the Bahamas for 10 days. We wrote her tracks in meausrements for Mathematics where we had a scale of 1cm = 1km. Each day we wrote in our Turtle Diary about how far she had traveled. For Literacy we researched Sea Turtles and wrote an Information Report based on all our research. Our last project was to create a crayon and dye Sea Turtle art piece to go with our Information Report.”

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Posted 3 months ago