Diary of a Turtle 25 Reviews

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The tracking of the turtles made the kit personal and the learners loved seeing how the turtles migrate.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We did it weekly and came up with 3 full ones. We are still doing it now but are using recycled cartons and using our bins to minimise waste.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The young learners also shared their learning to their whanau and have urged them to use less plastic

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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 did we have to create plastic in the first place?

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? lid of a lunchbox

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

“I love how the kit comes with the gloves and rubbish bins. We used it for a cleanliness brigade for our STEM initiative. It was also helpful that it had a poster of the kinds of rubbish that we collected as it became a springboard for researching the different plastic waste we create.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves - was motivation

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

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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? Rich

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Alcohol cans cut up

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

“My children loved learning about turtles and the pollution that happens and how we can prevent it from harming turtles and other sea life.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? text messages- linking to what we were doing in our school, creating artworks, seeing what the rubbish can do to our oceans and the creatures that live there

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 1 as we only did it around our school due to age group and only just started school

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? caring for the envirnoment and thinking about waste

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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 it eat the rubbish in the sea it will die. or when on duty 'look Mrs Campbell I found this rubbish' and together we put it in the right place.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? not so much unusal but lots of yogurt pouch lids

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

“Children were engaged and enjoyed learning about the sea turtles. We made links to our Waste free lunch boxes that we do at our school. As we were only year 0, we picked rubbish up around teh school playground. Children enjoyed receiving text messages.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The Text messages - gave a sense of urgency and purpose, made it feel real to the students. The clean up gear - they enjoyed the gloves and reinforced the message. The Tally posters were great for including maths statistics and analysing the trash. The Art poster

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Definitely more concern for the effect of rubbish on sea creature and willingness to pick up rubbish that isn't theirs.

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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? Protect Flappy! (our turtle)

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? socks

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

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

“The students were hooked on tracking our turtle and following its progress. The text messages drew them into caring about the effects of plastic rubbish on their environment, and how dangerous it was. We use the gloves and clean-up bags to clean our school and the native area over a 2-week period. We discussed where the rubbish was coming from (our lunches) and that it was everyone's responsibility to clear it away before it reached the ocean.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The text messages from the Sea Cleaners boat were really inspiring for writing - the class looked forward to the daily messages.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Yes - I now have children ask which bin they should be putting their rubbish in and they often bring in rubbish they have found in the playground.

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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 stop rubbish getting into the Pacific Ocean

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A toaster still in it's box!

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

“This was such a good kit for our juniors. I loved how it had the online aspect - the class loved tracking a live turtle. It then fed into some great writing, statistics with a real context and very cool turtle art. I still have some kids tracking our turtle Buddy even though we finished the kit a few weeks ago!”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Meaningful, student led and driven, relatable.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Absolutely, my class is picking up rubbish around school and talking about how it can travel and affect the marine life.

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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 turtle is laying eggs at the moment because they have moved from the water into *** bay.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? tyre

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?

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

“Our kids loved tracking the turtles and learning about where they live and their movements. They were able to do this independently as it didn't use Google Maps. The personal aspect of the 'Live video updates' and messages made the writing component engaging. We did struggle with measuring the distances but overall a great inquiry with integrated learning.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The step by step instructions on your website - so easy for me to follow along

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? it definately made them aware of the wider problem with rubbish in our world

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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 wish we could collect all the rubbish out of the ocean like with a big scoop

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? a leaf that looked like rubbish

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

“The children loved learning all about turtles and adopting one. they loved the text messages and following along the story line. They enjoyed learning about the rubbish in the ocean and how its dangerous for the sea life. Some of them even wantt to be sea cleaners now”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The writing prompts as they really engaged my students and as a result they produced fantastic writing.

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

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The class have a great understanding of Kaitiakitanga and enjoying thinking about ways to protect the environment. We now have recycling and soft plastic bins in the class.

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? The writing prompts helped me add detail to my writing because I could use similes, adjectives and adverbs.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A net for catching kai moana.

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

“A truly rich context for learning that I would highly recommend. My class loved discovering all about turtles and how to protect the environment. The learning kept them engaged for the whole term, and I was easily able to weave it into all areas of the curriculum. As a kaiako, I felt strongly supported, and it significantly eased my workload. Thank you for all your amazing work in putting this excellent resource together!”

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Posted 3 months ago