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Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Rubbish picking up and sorting. Turtle reading about how plastic affects our oceans.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 1 full bag

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It went along with our kaitiakitanga learning/ we are the guardians. They became more aware of their own rubbish impact as well as others.

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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? Wow I didn't know that turtles ate plastic by mistake.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Ball

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 children loved tracking the turtle and the reading that went along with it. The colouring activity was also a big hit.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The online links to track the turtle

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? 2 as we could only focus on our school area - no access to a beach close by.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Students are definitly more aware of the impact our rubbish can have on wild life, we didn't come up with many solutions on how to solve or help the problem. This discussion could continue into Term 4

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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 can't remember

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? pieces of fake grass

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

“My students loved this! Everything in the pack was well set out and easy to follow. Tracking our turtle and managing rubbish in our environment was easy to slot into our daily routine. The lessons also lent themselves to other learning areas and we enjoyed researching about sea turtles and writing information reports, creating a bar graph to track how far our turtle moved each day.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The text messages and the writing prompts, because they were very engaging. I added a bit of drama, as suggested and they were so into it. they also loved the little gloves and special rubbish bags - who would have thought picking up rubbish could be so fun and engaging. The whole idea about being part of the Sea Cleaners Team was very engaging. They felt they were part of something important.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? It certainly made us aware of how much rubbish was lying around just in our own little rural town. It will be learning that I am sure we will refer back to.

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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 can't recall an an actual sentence, but there was quite a bit of talk around tracking devices and signals and location of our turtle.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A car rear vision mirror!

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

“Diary of a Turtle 25 provides a great range of learning activities which are accessible to a wide range of year levels. My Year One class loved choosing and tracking an actual turtle and we did some great writing related to our learning. They also loved the text messages and got excited whenever I said we'd received a new message. The kit provides learning across learning areas. I appreciated that the clean up could be done pretty much anywhere, and didn't require a trip to a beach. Thanks for some great learning, Schoolkit.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? recycling gloves - used on multiple occasions to clean up our local area.

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Children aware of recycling. It fitted in with changes at our school to ensure less 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? The wind blows our rubbish into the river that's how it gets into thew sea.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A weight lifting hand weight

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

“We followed the tracking of many turtles and investigated the locations and the types of turtles. Keen interest by pupils and some families.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The videos showed the real problem our oceans are facing.

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect? We used all the bags but it would have equated to 4 full bags of rubbish we collected on a walkway.

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? I feel it made my students more aware that what starts as rubbish on the whenua ends up in our oceans.

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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? What we are doing is manāki whenua, taking care of the land - our school vision

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? Mainly old plastic and glass bottles

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

“My students loved following a turtle which we named Bella. The videos from the sea captain were a great impact to show the amount of rubbish that ends up in our oceans. The School Kit website was easy to use. Using the bags and gloves also made collecting the rubbish more of a focus.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Tracking the turtles 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? It has had a great impact on the children’s use of rubbish and where it goes

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? Lots of maths conversations about distance the turtle traveled

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? A feather boa

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

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 really enjoyed using this kit with my class. They all loved tracking our turtle and getting the messages from our ranger friends.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Turtle tracker

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How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? The tamariki have made the connection between how dropping litter on the land injures marine 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? 'Why would a turtle want to eat plastic?'

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? watch strap

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

“Fantastic Kit, my year 1 and 2 class loved it. It comes with lots of engaging resources for beach cleans and a to track a turtle.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Cell phone writing prompts to start our stories

How many bags of rubbish did your class collect?

How has this kit impacted your class culture toward whenua ora (land wellness) and sustainability? Our whole unit this term was focused on cleaning up our local area, we have been collecting soft plastics to recycle and children are further developing their understanding about how the land impacts the water.

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 don't want that rubbish going into the river because it will end up in the ocean.

What was the most unusual piece of rubbish found? discarded tins full of old paint

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

“I absolutely loved this kit for inspiring my five year olds' writing. They wrote some amazing stories using the phone picture prompts to start us off. Foloowing the distance of a real life recently released turtle was great. Not all of the suggested activities were suitable for my class but I was easily able to make modifications where necessary.”

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Posted 3 months ago