Diary of a Turtle 25 Reviews

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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves and the rubbish bags because this helped to motivate the children to clean up our environment. We also used these both at a school assembly and sung a song about caring for our oceans. Everyone wanted gloves like ours. Also the giant turtle which we covered in rubbish.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Sooooooo many and they have made a mindful change to the amount of rubbish that they bring in their lunchboxes also.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? As above - students have made a mindful change to the amount of rubbish that they bring in their lunchboxes and pick up rubbish that they see around 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? Pick that rubbish up and put it in the right place so we can protect the turtles

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? The class thought that 'toilet paper' was amusing

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 the BEST kit I have ever used - thank you! The children and teachers all LOVED it and have made some real authetic changes to their thoughts and actions as a result of their new learning. The children loved starting their day by finding out where 'our turtle' "Lil Mango" had swum while we were sleeping overnight.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The action -hands on clean up.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 3x

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Our inquiry this term was to do with materials and the impact on our environment -this kit complemented this perfectly and got this children thinking about the choices we make and the impact it has on papatuanuku

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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? “Let’s make something new out of the rubbish instead of throwing it away!”

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? 7 hair ties!

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

“The content was engaging and helped students understand the impact humans have on marine life. I adapted the resource to align with our concept-based Inquiry, which meant I didn’t use all of the provided planning. However, the visuals, real-life examples, and focus on environmental responsibility supported rich discussions and hands-on learning. It was a valuable base for exploring sustainability and kaitiakitanga (guardianship of the environment) with our tamariki.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves and the turtle. They have gloves to use at home and they coloured in the turtle template.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Yes, the children didn’t want the turtle to get sick or die because of plastic rubbish.

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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 are helping ‘Sparkle’ or turtle stay safe.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? kettle

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

“The children enjoyed tracking a turtle and picking up rubbish with their gloves.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The gloves/rubbish bag.

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 children are aware that rubbish from the whenua ends up 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? The rubbish gets in the drains

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? lego

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

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 using the gloves to collect rubbish around our Kura.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The visual displays and planning online.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Highly! They love animals in particular and seeing the affects of rubbish on the environment has helped hugely.

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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 are people so lazy and not putting their rubbish in the bin or recycling things?"

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A piece of wire in the creek.

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

“The Diary of a Turtle School Kit was highly engaging for our learners. There was a lot of detail in the resources provided/online, and the content was pitched at a level for learners to succeed. It was great for learners to have more of an idea of the impact of rubbish of the environment, they found this very engaging and motivating.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Gloves, messages, bags - kids loved having their own gloves with the message written on them.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? Lots at school and a weekend clean-up at the local beach.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? They are very concerned about rubbish going down drains and out to sea. We also explored drainage.

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 are part of the Sea Cleaners team" "We are helping the turtles"

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Fishing rod at the beach.

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

“Kids loved the message from the Sea Cleaner Captain at the beginning - this really helped to hook them in and gave them lots of motivation to join the team. The gloves and bags were awesome! The turtle tracking was really great too - the kids loved our weekly check-ins and many of them got their parents to scan the QR code so they could do it at home.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The messages could be well linked to what our turtle was doing (with some imagination ;)

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 4 partially filled bags

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The students are aware of how rubbish they see can have a wider impact and take responsibility.

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? I heard "Can we track Miso Speedy?" (the turtle) often.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? An A3ish and heavy piece of a heater

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 of year 2 and 3 students loved connecting the online tracking of a turtle with the messages from sea cleaners, and writing a diary from the perspective of the turtle. We did our clean up at a local domain, which the kids use often. This was a great motivation!”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The shared reading texts and the turtle tracking. The shared reading texts were at the right level for my class and prompted them to think more deeply about what is happening in our oceans. The follow on activities were cute and easy for the kids to relate too. Being able to track a turtle and mark this daily was a great way to introduce our new Numicon equipment to the class and learn about place value.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? We have found out we live on a stream which feeds into our local marine reserve and although we do not have turtles, we need to care for our moana

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? How much further has Honu travelled overnight?

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? huge pieces of wood with rusty nails sticking out of them

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

“Diary of a turtle was more than a beach clean up/Sea Cleaners - my class became Sea Rangers and scientists tracking a sea turtle, thinking about the environmental impact we have on turtles and taking action. The links to reading, writing and maths were so engaging and it was so wonderful to see my most disengaged students tell to any adult who would listen turtle facts.”

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Posted 3 months ago